![]() Yet the book has neither a novel's immediacy of individual experience, nor the broad overview of history. Information is given, a good deal of it, in the most gracefully invisible manner and history is told. There are novelistically vivid faces, scenes, glimpses, voices, each for a moment only, so you cannot linger anywhere or with anyone. It is closely and carefully based on factual history/ies. This passage may give a clue as to how Julie Otsuka's book is to be read. Some of us were farmers' daughters from Yamaguchi with thick wrists and broad shoulders who had never gone to bed after nine." Some of us were from Nara, and prayed to our ancestors three times a day, and swore we could still hear the temple bells ringing. "S ome of us on the boat were from Kyoto and were delicate and fair, and had lived our entire lives in darkened rooms at the back of the house. ![]()
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