The Buddha in the Attic

Name: The Buddha in the Attic
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Author: Джулия Оцука
ISBN: 9780307700469

Оцука Джулия

Жанр Проза

Год 2014

ISBN: 9780307700469

Язык Английский

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Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.

In eight incantatory sections, traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.