{"product_id":"when-the-emperor-was-divine-9780385721813","title":"When the Emperor Was Divine","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel from the PEN\/Faulkner Award Winning Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWhen the Emperor Was Divine\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385721813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2003 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2004 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e68644 \/ When the Emperor Was Divine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 5\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Julie Otsuka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636822175900,"sku":"9780385721813","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_69bd773b-af33-4624-ad55-9f45fe2f3359.jpg?v=1603843058","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/when-the-emperor-was-divine-9780385721813","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}