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...Books: Divine Emperor...
Novels about the discrimination suffered by Asians in America tend to be melodramatic affairs calculated to get readers reaching for tissues rather than insight. Julie Otsuka's first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, is a crisp departure from the Asian-American sobfest. Otsuka's tale of the disintegration of a Japanese-American family during World War II offers a powerful indictment of government-sponsored paranoia that has implications for today's U.S. war on terror...
...Books: Divine Emperor...
...adopted country, loyalty to family and loyalty to race. It is a balancing act rigged to end in alienation: they are doomed to demonization simply by being Japanese. As the civil liberties of Middle Eastern immigrants in today's America are eroded by the war on terror, When the Emperor Was Divine serves as a cautionary reminder of the damage governments inflict when they indiscriminately punish the innocent in the name of national security...
...Books: Divine Emperor...