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After the Bloom
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8,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Dundurn |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.04.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781459737457 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 328 |
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Beschreibungen
<b>A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.</b>
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<br>Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her own investigation. In the course of searching for her mom, she is forced to confront a labyrinth of secrets surrounding the family’s internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War, their postwar immigration to Toronto, and the father she has never known.
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<br>Epic in scope, intimate in style,
<i>After the Bloom</i> blurs between the present and the ever-present past, beautifully depicting one family’s struggle to face the darker side of its history and find some form of redemption.
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<br>Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her own investigation. In the course of searching for her mom, she is forced to confront a labyrinth of secrets surrounding the family’s internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War, their postwar immigration to Toronto, and the father she has never known.
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<br>Epic in scope, intimate in style,
<i>After the Bloom</i> blurs between the present and the ever-present past, beautifully depicting one family’s struggle to face the darker side of its history and find some form of redemption.
Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother’s internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father.
Leslie Shimotakahara’s memoir,
<i>The Reading List</i>, was the winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2012. Her fiction has been short-listed for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.
<i>After the Bloom</i> is her debut novel. Leslie lives in Toronto.
<i>The Reading List</i>, was the winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2012. Her fiction has been short-listed for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.
<i>After the Bloom</i> is her debut novel. Leslie lives in Toronto.
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<li>A mother-daughter story of a family, focused on the tensions between the two female generations working through the trauma of the internment camps of the Second World War</li>
<li>Dramatizes how the internment of Japanese families in the U.S. and Canada has long been a subject of shame rarely spoken of in affected families, and shows how these wounds endure in silence</li>
<li>Inspired by the author’s family history. Leslie Shimotakahara is a fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian whose older relatives were all interned in Canada or the U.S.</li>
<li>The Internment was recently the subject of a Broadway musical, <i>Allegiance</i>, by George Takei</li>
<li>The chapters set in 1980s Toronto bring back to life a city that lives in the memories of readers now in their thirties and older — a period of local history that has not yet received a great deal of attention</li>
<li>Author earned her Ph.D in English from Brown University in 2006.</li>
</ul>
<li>A mother-daughter story of a family, focused on the tensions between the two female generations working through the trauma of the internment camps of the Second World War</li>
<li>Dramatizes how the internment of Japanese families in the U.S. and Canada has long been a subject of shame rarely spoken of in affected families, and shows how these wounds endure in silence</li>
<li>Inspired by the author’s family history. Leslie Shimotakahara is a fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian whose older relatives were all interned in Canada or the U.S.</li>
<li>The Internment was recently the subject of a Broadway musical, <i>Allegiance</i>, by George Takei</li>
<li>The chapters set in 1980s Toronto bring back to life a city that lives in the memories of readers now in their thirties and older — a period of local history that has not yet received a great deal of attention</li>
<li>Author earned her Ph.D in English from Brown University in 2006.</li>
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