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Based on the author's own experiences, this story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII is "a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility" (The New York Times Book Review) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author:
Kogawa, Joy
Title:
Obasan
Publisher:
DR Godine
Imprint:
Boston - DR Godine
Pages:
250
Edition:
1st US ed
ISBN:
0879234296
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Joy Kogawa
Characteristics:
250 p. ;,23 cm
Author (Original Script):
Kogawa, Joy
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Add a CommentA story about a Canadian family (second and third generation Canadian from Japan) sent from the coast to work camps in the interior of BC and in Alberta during World War II. The main character was a child during those years - we start with her as a small girl in a house in Kerrisdale and end in Grenfell, Alberta with the death of her uncle, who raised her brother and her. The story itself is compelling - uncomfortable to read what the Canadian government did in the name of national security. But the writing is almost poetic; the scents and sights of coastal forest, then prairie so vivid.
fabulous look at a dark time in Canadian histroy. In my opinion it should be read by all students as it looks at several different issues faced by many of today's youth while educating them about a different culture living in their own towns!