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A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.
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Naomi is 5 years old when Pearl Harbour changes her life. Separated from her mother and her father, she watches bewildered as she and her Canadian-born family become enemy aliens. First, she and her brother are moved from their comfortable home in Vancouver to an abandoned mining town in the interior of British Columbia. Later, they are transferred to a farm in Alberta.""Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt, Obasan, and the silence of those around her.
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- PublisherPenguin Canada
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 014305502X
- ISBN 13 9780143055020
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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