Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-buddha-in-attic.htmlThe Buddha in the Attic tells the history of a segment of our country. It tells the story of the "picture brides."To understand the book, you have to understand a little of the history behind it....
Although it was sometimes hard to read because the information kept coming at me in short, almost rhythmic bursts of thought, attacking my brain with bullets of information, it was actually an amazing read because after 129 pages, I not only felt that I knew about the history of the Japanese women w...
In just 144 pages, Julie Otsuka magically takes us the readers deep into the experience of the lives of Japanese mail-order brides of the 1930's, lives filled with pain and terror and joy and exhilaration, like the lives of all brides, all women, all people. It's a beautiful trip. We readers go wher...
La versione inglese di questo libro sembra guardarti sbattendo le ciglia e chiamarti con voce suadente; "comprami, comprami! sono il libro che fa per te!". E come dargli torto? La copertina è splendida, vale la pena di essere preso solo per quella e il titolo (The Buddha in the Attic) ti fa pensare ...
I was interested in the lives the women had lived when brought here under the horrible conditions these women had been, Sold to men in America as wives, directly from Japan some not even passed puberty yet. The details are there, as they traveled through the experience. The are listed like a grocery...
This book reminded me of two others that I liked, "The Fates Will Find Their Way" and "Shanghai Girls". I know Shanghai Girls was about the Chinese and this is the Japanese, but there are a lot of similiarities with the girls on the boat, and their husbands who essentially bought them from their pa...
Gorgeously written, this reads less like a novel than a set of essays on the immigrant experience. Narrated from a plural first-person perspective, The Buddha in the Attic describes the experience of Japanese picture brides as they travel across the ocean in the early twentieth century to meet their...
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