The Buddha in the Attic [Audiobook] download free by Julie Otsuka
- Listen audiobook: The Buddha in the Attic
- Author: Julie Otsuka
- Release date: 2013/12/20
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780241956489
- Rating: 8.18 of 10
- Votes: 524
- Review by: Maggie Matthew
- Review rating: 9.39 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 1H48M16S in 256 kbps (28.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, MPC, MP3, AIFF, WMA, FLAC (compression BZ, RPM, RAR, ISO, ZIP, LHA)
- Total pages original book: 144
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M43S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. 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.'Sweeping, symphonic, empathic . . . subtle, infinitely skilful . . . an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless' Daily Mail'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women . . . the distaff equivalent of a war memorial' Daily Telegraph'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience . . . Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire'An understated masterpiece... she conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without losing sight of the distinct experience of each' San Francisco ChronicleJulie Otsuka was born and raised in California. 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. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: UsersCloud, Uploaded, Google Drive, Mediafire, Hotfile, JustCloud, Torrent, FileServe. Compressed in BZ, RPM, RAR, ISO, ZIP, LHA
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 8.50 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x8mm
- Weight: 106g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
Vote:
‹
›
