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Obasan

By Joy Kogawa

By Joy Kogawa

By Joy Kogawa

By Joy Kogawa

By Joy Kogawa
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By Joy Kogawa
Read by Mary Ito

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Paperback $19.00

Dec 27, 1993 | ISBN 9780385468862

Ebook $12.99

Sep 13, 2016 | ISBN 9780735233904

Audiobook Download $18.00

Jan 29, 2019 | 570 Minutes

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    Obasan by Joy Kogawa
    Paperback $19.00
    Dec 27, 1993 | ISBN 9780385468862

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    About Obasan

    Winner of the American Book Award

    Based on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

    About Obasan

    Winner of the American Book Award

    Based on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

    About Obasan

    A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.

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    About Joy Kogawa

    Joy Kogawa is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), which is based on Joy and her family’s forced relocation from Vancouver during the Second World War when she was six years old. Joy’s other books for adults include

    … More about Joy Kogawa

    About Joy Kogawa

    Joy Kogawa is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), which is based on Joy and her family’s forced relocation from Vancouver during the Second World War when she was six years old. Joy’s other books for adults include

    … More about Joy Kogawa

    About Joy Kogawa

    Joy Kogawa is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), which is based on Joy and her family’s forced relocation from Vancouver during the Second World War when she was six years old. Joy’s other books for adults include

    … More about Joy Kogawa

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 27, 1993 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385468862

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Canada
    Sep 13, 2016 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780735233904

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Canada
    Jan 29, 2019 | 570 Minutes | ISBN 9780735235878

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