by Julie Otsuka · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264046673
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«Quand l'empereur était un dieu» is the novel by Julie Otsuka, published by 10/18 in paperback (155 pages, in French).
After Pearl Harbor, a Japanese-American family from Berkeley is taken by the FBI to an internment camp in Utah. Julie Otsuka, drawing on her grandparents' story, portrays the psychosis of the era and the three years of captivity of a mother and her two children, until the difficult return to their ransacked home.
Published in 2008, it is Julie Otsuka's first novel; this French version, translated from English by Bruno Boudard, is part of the 10/18 collection (no. 4138).
A short novel for readers of historical fiction interested in the experience of the Japanese community in the United States during World War II.
