She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. she conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without losing sight of the distinct experience of each' San Francisco Chronicle Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire 'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience. the distaff equivalent of a war memorial' Daily Telegraph 'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless' Daily Mail Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.īetween the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America.
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