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Titulo: The Buddha in the Attic
Autor: Julie Otsuka
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 2011
Editora: Knopf Publishing Group
Páginas: 144
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 9780307700001

Sinopse: 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.

O autor e a obra: Julie Otsuka é uma escritora norte americana de origens japonesas, de 52 anos. Este é o seu segundo livro, sendo que o primeiro, Quando o Imperador Era Divino, foi editado em Portugal em 2006 pela Temas e Debates. Este The Buddha in the Attic que eu saiba, não foi alvo de tradução e ganhou o PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, sendo também finalista do International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award e do National Book Award for Fiction.