When the Emperor Was Divine

* When the Emperor Was Divine -* When the Emperor Was Divine -First Anchor paperback edition 2003. Clean crisp almost unread. copyright 2002 by author. Cover design by John Gall, Author photograph by Daryl N. Long. Book design by Iris Weinstein.- On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, 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.== In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story-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. LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed- in foam core- to protect it in transit - sent media mail - 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer....When the Emperor Was Divine - A Novel By Julie Otsuka Paperback – 2002 by Julie Otsuka inv bmk 26 bib 2951