{"product_id":"9780385721813","title":"When the Emperor Was Divine","description":"\u003cb\u003eF\u003cb\u003erom the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, \u003c\/i\u003ethis commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps\u003c\/b\u003e that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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  incarceration camp in the Utah desert. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370094432317,"sku":"9780385721813","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780385721813_p0.jpg?v=1771588046","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780385721813","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}