![]() ![]() One hundred miles from the Protected Zone, they had to form new makeshift communities without direct access to electricity, plumbing, or foodfor five years.įifty years later, after his wifes sudden death, Bin travels across Canada to find the biological father who has been lost to him. They were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry, and Bin, as a young boy, was forced to watch neighbors raid his familys home before the transport boats even undocked. In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removed Bin Okumas family from their home on British Columbias west coast and forced them into internment camps. In her new novel, she traces the lives, loves, and secrets in one Japanese-Canadian family during and after their internment in the 1940s. perfectly modulated novel.*The Washington Post*Īn extraordinary researcher and scholar of detail, Frances Itaniauthor of the best-selling novel Deafeningexcels at weaving breathtaking fiction from true-life events. Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |