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Title: When the Emperor Was Divine
Author: Julie Otsuka
Narrator: Elaina Erika Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-16-03
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 166 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism.
When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
Critic Reviews:
"Exceptional...Otsuka skillfully dramatizes a world suddenly foreign...[Her] incantatory, unsentimental prose is the book's greatest strength." (The New Yorker)
"The novel's honesty and matter-of-fact tone in the face of inconceivable injustice are the source of its power." (Publishers Weekly)
"Mesmerizing." (The New York Times)
