The Buddha in the Attic av Julie Otsuka

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<p><b>Julie Otsuka''s <i>The Buddha in the Attic</i>, the follow-up to <i>When the Emperor Was Divine</i> was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.<br><br></b>Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land.<br><br>''Sweeping, symphonic, empathic . . . subtle, infinitely skilful . . . an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka''s haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless'' <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>''A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women . . . the d