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Obasan
by Joy Kogawa
ISBN: 0785745769
ISBN-13: 9780785745761
Format: Prebinding
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Summary
This novel was the first to tell the story of the Canadian internment camps for Japanese-Canadian citizens during World War II.
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"'Obasan' is a very moving vision of an affront to democratic principles...a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility."
-- New York Times
"A poignant, painful story, recollected with vivid, sparely evocative details."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bt Bound
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.82 pounds
Publisher's Notes
The narrator learns about the experiences of her grandmother, Obasan, who was among those Japanese Canadians relocated to internment camps at the beginning of World War II.
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Obasan
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NY: Anchor/Random, 1994. (19th printing). Glossy Hardbound. FINE. As new - gift quality! "All her life, Aunt Emily toiled to tell of the lives of the Nisei in Canada in her effort to make familiar, to make knowable, the treacherous yellow peril that lived in the mind of the racially prejudiced." ISBN: 0785745769. ( more information) Offered by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (United States)
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Joy Kogawa
Tandem Library, 1999-10. School & Library Binding. New. Brand New. In Stock. Order Now. Ship from CA, IN, PA, OR. Over 600,000 CD/DVD, Books and bibles. ( more information) Offered by *** www.HarvardBooksellers.com *** (United States)
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