Obasan
by Kogawa, Joy
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385468865
- ISBN 13
- 9780385468862
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
An Anchor book, Doubleday. 1994 ISBN# 0-385-46886-5 Fifth printing, VG, trade paper, 300 pages. Also includes excerpt from the sequel, "Itsuka". Book has bookstore stamp on bottom edge of pages. Nice tight book with bending caused by dampness at some time..
Synopsis
Obasan is a novel by the Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during World War II from the perspective of a young child. This book is often required reading for university English courses on Canadian Literature as well as in Ethnic Studies and Asian American Literature courses in the United States. In 2005, it was the One Book, One Vancouver selection.
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- Bookseller
- River Run Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3576
- Title
- Obasan
- Author
- Kogawa, Joy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385468865
- ISBN 13
- 9780385468862
- Publisher
- An Anchor book, Doubleday. 1994 ISBN# 0-385-46886-5
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1993-12-27
- Keywords
- FICTION, HISTORICAL RRB5
- Bookseller catalogs
- RRB5;
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