Toronto:: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, , (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Second novel by this award-winning author, the story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who discovers, after the death of her father, that she has a half sister in Japan, and that he might even have been a kamikaze pilot during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp.

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From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life together in Toronto, as they have since Miyo's mother died in childbirth. When her father dies, Miyo learns that years before he had secretly married and had another child. Driven to discover what else he may have hidden, Miyo travels to Tokyo to meet Hana, her half-sister. She finds herself drawn into Hana's obsession with learning their father's war history-and is shocked to learn that he was a kamikaze pilot. How did he come back alive when only death bestowed honor on a kamikaze? What did he do to survive? Sakamoto skillfully weaves larger questions of guilt and obligation into an intimate, suspenseful account of a young woman and a country both confronting themselves.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60926
Title: ONE HUNDRED MILLION HEARTS.
Author: Sakamoto, Kerri
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0676975119
ISBN 13: 9780676975116
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Place of Publication: Toronto:
Date Published: (2003)
Keywords: japanese american, japanese canadian, world war ii fiction, family secrets, kamikaze pilot,
Bookseller catalogs: Asian and Asian American;

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