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Book Review of When the Emperor Was Divine

When the Emperor Was Divine
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from back jacket:
In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells the (story of World War II Japanese relocation) from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-waled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism.