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East Wind, Rain
by Caroline Paul
ISBN: 0060780762
ISBN-13: 9780060780760
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Since 1915 the tiny Hawaiian island of Niihau has been almost entirely closed off to the outside world. This isolation was ruptured in 1941 when a Japanese pilot, on his return from the attack on Pearl Harbor, crash-landed, and was captured by the islanders. Using this historical oddity as a jumping-off point for a novel, Caroline Paul has ingeniously recreated the unlikely events, and vividly depicted the strange and tragic conclusion. In particular, she shows the torn loyalties of the island's three Japanese-American occupants. In doing so, Paul turns a peculiar footnote in history into a marvelous work of fiction.
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"[The] records of the Niihau episode are spotty and contradictory....It is a testament to [Caroline Paul's] ability as a writer that the novel's most captivating creation, Niihau itself, is the pure product of her imagination. When it's over, we don't want to leave." -- Hanna Rubin
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Perennial
Published date: 2007
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.48 pounds
Pages: 260
Publisher's Notes
When an unidentified plane crashes on the remote Hawaiian island of Niihau, in December 1941, the islanders do not realize that the aircraft is a Japanese Zero and that the surviving pilot has just taken part in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but his arrival forces a Japanese-American couple living on the island to question their own loyalties. A first novel. By the author of Fighting Fire. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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East Wind, Rain: A Novel (P.S.)
Caroline Paul
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Caroline Paul
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East Wind, Rain
Paul, Caroline
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