Some had never seen the sea: Audiobook

In the early twentieth century, American singles have chosen, catalog, spouses of Japanese, having exchanged some letters and photographs. The young ladies, of all ages and from all backgrounds, and have left everything in the hope of a better life, but reality eventually proved different. For all these girls with dreams overflowing pockets, unfortunately have not found love on arrival. Most were actually considered livestock, hand work docile and cheap. And husbands were not bankers or rich silk traders, but simple farmers, housed in tents or huts.

Bitter disappointment for all those Japanese, trapped in a marriage without a soul, without life, without tenderness! But when some of them have learned to make against misfortune good heart, or been able to establish a true family harmony, they were then hit by the horrors of war, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the government measures to park all Japanese immigrants in camps, lost in the mountains. Shared between shame, incomprehension, helplessness and bitterness, our heroines have assumed their new destiny without flinching.

The story of Julie Otsuka is inherently interesting, intelligent, poignant and informative. For cons, I find it unfortunate, even if it is part of the choice of the author, is to deliberately spoke in the first person plural, showing that this is a collective testimony, all united in the same boat. The problem was that all appeared to me impersonal, with a set distance, without the possibility to focus on a story or a particular character. These are ultimately only anonymous faces, it was nice to feel what these young women may have experienced in this life experience, it also follows an empty feeling. It is rather disconcerting.

A narration, we Irène Jacob, whose charm and subtlety confer listening graceful melody with sweet and powerful accents as needed. This is especially nice! Play short, only 3:47! In the same vein, I recommend The thread sewing up the souls of Jean-Jacques Greif.