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TULE LAKE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
W a l d p o r t , O regon: H o u s e B y t h e S e a P u b l i s h i n g C o . , (1979.). One of the first Japanese-American novels to portray the struggle for justice and freedom from within the confines of America's concentration camps by those who refused to cooperate with the internment of 120,000 of their fellow Americans during World War II. The author was seven years old when he was sent to a camp with his family. Tule Lake was unique among these camps in that it housed those who were deemed 'disloyal' by the US government. 3 2 8 p p . p l u s g l o s s a r y .
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 46881More details Price: $18.00 -
THE INVISIBLE THREAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63425More details Price: $12.50 -
PICTURE BRIDE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1999). A novel covering the years from 1917 through 1943, this is a testament to the strength of the immigrants who came to America in hopes of a better life. Young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides." Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers .. . all are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps." 216 pp. ISBN: 0-295976160.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78683More details Price: $12.50