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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFor Fiction
National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine 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 unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.

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Acclaim for Julie Otsuka's<br> The Buddha in the Attic <br> A delicate, heartbreaking portrait . . . beautifully rendered . . . Otsuka's prose is precise and rich with imagery. Readers will be . . . hopelessly engaged and will finish this exceptional book profoundly moved. <br>-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> Haunting and intimate . . . Otsuka tracts the grace and strength at the core of immigrant (and female) survival and, with exquisite care, makes us rethink the heartbreak of eternal hope. <br>--Susanna Sonnenberg, More <br> When the Emperor Was Divine <br> [A] crystalline debut novel. . . . [Otsuka has] lyric gifts and narrative poise, her heat-seaking eye for detail, her effortless ability to empathize with her characters. . . . [A] resonant and beautifully nuanced achievement. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times <br> Exceptional. . . . Otsuka skillfully dramatizes a world suddenly foreign. . . . [Her] incantatory, unsentimental prose is th

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Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel, When the Emperor was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.

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