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Original Title:	The Buddha in the Attic
ISBN:	0307700003 (ISBN13: 9780307700001)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2012), Prix Femina for Étranger (2012), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2011), David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013)

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Hardcover | Pages: 129 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 40749 Users | 6356 Reviews

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Title	:	The Buddha in the Attic
Author	:	Julie Otsuka
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 129 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2011 by Knopf
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asia

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Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel 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 incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

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Ratings: 3.63 From 40749 Users | 6356 Reviews

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After the first chapter of this book, I thought I had hit upon a goldmine of a book and wondered how anyone dared to rate it less than 4 stars. Otsuka draws the reader in by offering up a kaleidoscope of experiences by a flock of Japanese women clustered in the ship's steerage bound for California as mail-order brides. Lest you think this is a silly book. It is not. Here is what I liked:*Otsuka clearly has researched, read her history of Japanese emigration, interviewed obsessively to come up

I read The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka as part of my women's history month lineup. A well researched, historical fictional account, Otsuka depicts life for Japanese American immigrants to California over a span of thirty years in the early 20th century. Featuring mail order brides who came to San Francisco to meet their husbands for the first time, Otsuka gives a voice to a people whose story would otherwise be lost. The women came from all over Japan to sail on a steamship to meet their

The Buddha in the Attic What a mesmerizing reading experience this was. I don't recall reading a historical novel as emotionally intuitive and empathetic as this one in a long time.I was moved to read Buddha after watching George Takei's Ted Talk in which he describes what he and his family experienced when they were rounded up and taken to a interment camp after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor.Although a work of fiction, this short novel focuses on the psychological and emotional

It truly boggles the mind all of the attention this book has gotten. The premise is very simple: told in the first person plural, the stories of the women who were brought over from Japan before WW2, generally to miserable lives they had not anticipated, is related. There is no story in this book, however, as it is everyone's story. So we get every variation of where they had come from, every variation of sex for the first time with their husbands, childbirth, work, raising children, interacting

Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic is a beautiful collection of short stories that I will cherish and think about for a long time. I've said it before: it's often difficult to write about things that are closest to my heart, and this one is no exception.Told from the perspective of many picture brides sailing to San Francisco from their various hometowns in Japan during the early 1900s, Otsuka relates their dreams and fears in a constant stream of thought. When the brides finally arrive, each

A lovely poemovella. Or novellem? How would one categorize this hybrid poem-novella? Whatever its genre, it is without a doubt eloquent and unforgettable. Within this slim volume the history of 20th century Issei and Nisei - first and second generation Japanese immigrants to the western hemisphere - is told by Japanese women, who must "blend into a room", who must "be present without appearing to exist." Otsuka gives these women fearless, tender, angry, sorrowful voices and dares you to not

I don't believe that I have ever read a book that was written like this, one that is written in the collective "We" and "They." So creative, lyrical, and heartbreaking. So much is said in so short of a read. They were Japanese mail order brides of almost a century ago that believed that they were coming to a good life in America, even to good husbands. They also believed that they would make good wives for they knew how to cook, to sew, to make tea, and to please. They brought trunks filled