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During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that love can bloom in even the bleakest circumstances.
When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the United States Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front—and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi—unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart.
Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi's parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe—all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive.
As Christian Lange struggles to adapt to life as a soldier, his unit pushes its way from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a surprise confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For each man, Emi Kato is never far from their minds.
Flung together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. With her "elegant and extremely gratifying" (USA TODAY) storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.
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- ISBN: 9781501110481
- File size: 2307 KB
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- ISBN: 9781501110481
- File size: 3179 KB
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- English
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May 1, 2017
As World War II looms, three young people face internment, violence, and shattered futures.Tanabe (The Gilded Years, 2016, etc.) elegantly shifts among the storylines of Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, Leo Hartmann, the son of an Austrian-Jewish banker, and Christian Lange, the son of a German-born steel baron. Accustomed to a lifestyle of refined, cosmopolitan civilities, Emi has lived in Japan, London, Berlin, Vienna, and Washington, D.C. An accomplished pianist, her talents beckon Leo through the hallways of their Catholic school in Vienna. Enchanted, he brings Emi home to meet his mother, who encourages her to play for them every day on their priceless, hand-painted Steinway. Rising anti-Semitism throughout Europe, Hitlerjugend in the classrooms, and Hitler's Anschluss into Austria threaten their love affair, and the Hartmanns must flee for their lives. Soon Emi follows her father to America. Heartbroken and surviving on letters sent with hope but arriving late if at all, Emi and Leo try to carry on, waiting to reunite after the war. Washington, however, proves unsafe, as well, once Japan allies with Germany, so Emi and her family are detained, yet illness prevents Emi from quick deportation. Instead, she and her mother find themselves shuttled into internment camps. Meanwhile Christian's affluent family is woken in the middle of a Wisconsin night and detained, as well, eventually ending up at the same internment camp as Emi. A shocking accident lands Christian's mother in the hospital, where he meets Emi, who has been working as a nurse's aide, and love blossoms. Yet again, politics interrupt life, sending both lovers into the chaos of the Pacific theater. Tanabe gracefully entwines these lives, deftly depicting the psychological devastation of thwarted futures and poignantly sketching the shifts into cherishing the present moment. A gorgeously sweeping tale of the transcendence of love.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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