Obasan: Puffin Classics - Softcover

Kogawa, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143192345 ISBN 13: 9780143192343

Publisher: Puffin Canada, 2014

Synopsis

  Obasan is the moving story of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War, told through the eyes of a child. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, five-year-old Naomi’s life is changed forever. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land.

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7 1.5-hour cassettes

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Canada
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0143192345
• ISBN 13: 9780143192343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384