{"product_id":"when-the-emperor-was-divine-9780756966386","title":"When the Emperor Was Divine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling  award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers  this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.  On 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 familys 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.  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. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as todays headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646981267509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0756966388","price":27.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780756966386.jpg?v=1781684433","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-the-emperor-was-divine-9780756966386","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}