Julie Otsuka The Buddha In The Attic Interview

Otsuka draws her title from a haunting visual image an object left behind by one of the departing japanese.

Julie otsuka the buddha in the attic interview.

In eight incantatory sections the buddha in the attic traces the picture brides. With the buddha in the attic julie otsuka has developed a literary style that is half poetry half narration short phrases sparse description so that the current of emotion running through. The f word and is now a. Growing up in california where many japanese picture brides landed otsuka knew the grandchildren of brides it s a very common first generation.

Author of the buddha in the attic and when the emperor was divine. The buddha in the attic her exquisitely written second novel follows a group of so called picture brides who sail to san francisco bay in the early 1900s to marry men they have never met. Julie otsuka s long awaited follow up to when the emperor was divine is a tour de force of economy and precision a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from japan to san francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. Novelist julie otsuka cannot remember when she first learned of the picture brides women who immigrated to the u s.

Aliens and granta 115. Now available from anchor books. In the early 1900s to marry men from their native countries having exchanged only pictures and sometimes letters.