Books by Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land.'Sweeping, symphonic, empathic . . . subtle, infinitely skilful . . . an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless' Daily Mail'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women . . . the distaff equivalent of a war memorial' Daily Telegraph'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience . . . Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire'An understated masterpiece... she conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without losing sight of the distinct experience of each' San Francisco ChronicleJulie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionIt is four months after Pearl Harbour and overnight signs appear all over the United States instructing Japanese Americans to report to internment camps for the duration of the war. For one family it proves to be a nightmare of oppression and alienation. Explored from varying points of view - the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train journey; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return home; and the bitter release of their father after four years in captivity - it tells of an incarceration that will alter their lives for ever.Based on a true story, Julie Otsuka's powerful, deeply humane novel tells of an unjustly forgotten episode in America's wartime history.

Ein preisgekröntes Meisterwerk über eine wahre Geschichte»Auf dem Schiff waren die meisten von uns Jungfrauen.« So beginnt die berührende Geschichte einer Gruppe junger Frauen, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts als picture brides von Japan nach Kalifornien reisen, um japanische Einwanderer zu heiraten. Bis zu ihrer Ankunft kennen sie ihre zukünftigen Männer nur von Fotos, und auch sonst haben sie äußerst vage Vorstellungen von Amerika... Aus eindringlicher Wir-Perspektive schildert Julie Otsuka ergreifend die unterschiedlichen Schicksale der Frauen.Julie Otsuka, geboren 1962 in Kalifornien, war Guggenheim-Stipendiatin und wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet. "Wovon wir träumten" erhielt 2012 den PEN /Faulkner Award und wurde von der Presse hymnisch gefeiert.

Om Og vi kom over havet som mp3-lydbog 1919. Et skib er på vej over Stillehavet. Om bord er en gruppe unge japanske kvinder på vej til deres kommende ægtemænd i USA. Deres kufferter er pakket med silkekimonoer til bryllupsnatten, kalligrafipensler og rispapir til brevene hjem, små Buddhafigurer og fotografier af deres tilkommende – de fremmede, som har lovet at tage imod dem på kajen i San Francisco.Postordrebrudene fortæller hver især den gribende beretning om deres usædvanlige liv: fra den lange skibsrejse på nederste dæk fyldt med forestillinger og drømme om fremtiden i det ukendte land, ankomsten til San Francisco, mødet med deres tilkommende og den skræmmende bryllupsnat, til det hårde arbejdsliv som frugtplukkere og stuepiger, kampen for at tilegne sig et nyt sprog og en ny kultur, fødsler og opfostringen af børn, som ender med at forkaste deres afstamning og historie - helt frem til krigen og den decemberdag i 1941, hvor kvinderne og deres familier udpeges som forrædere.Og vi kom over havet er en stærk, fortryllende og intens roman om den amerikanske drøm.Copyright © 2011 Julie Otsuka Inc.Oversat af Jesper Klint Kistorp fra The Buddha in the Attic 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, USA, Californien, indvandrere, kvinder, japanere, parforhold