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Julia Otsuka |
Monday 3 February 2003 |
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 During the 2nd World War more than a 100,000 Japanese Americans were arrested and placed in internment camps for several years. Among them were Julia Otsuka's family.
Julie Otsuka joins Jenni to talk about the inspiration for her first novel When the Emperor Was Divine, a semi autobiographical portrait of a family in wartime.
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, published by Viking; ISBN: 0-670912638, on 30 January 2003
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