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  • My parents had never seen the sea  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    Like the Japanese, my parents also had never seen the sea before arriving in France with their little cardboard suitcase. The Mediterranean they heard about. The white man, they saw him in the large farms or in motorized vehicles ... And they knew hi
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  • A moment of grace 1  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    What joy that the book of Julie Otsuka. Its collective narrative, simple but poignant, imbued as much sadness, resignation and tremendous resilience, is poignant and unforgettable. Throes of the long crossing of the Pacific in "immigrant" class,
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  • gem January 12  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    One of the best books I've read this year, it reveals a sad condition that Japanese immigrants on US soil before and during World War II, particularly that of young women, steeped in culture, shipped across the oceans marry a stranger, often brutal,
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  • Revelations  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    This book made me discover the stories of Japanese women I had no idea, between the end of the 1st World War and the beginning of the second .It a universal story: the oppression of women, to men delivered , husbands without regard or respect and at
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  • Exiled from the memory  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    The most striking Some had never seen the sea is his mode of narration. No "I" but "we" that gathers several lifetimes, all different, but collectively face the same events. The book describes the departure of Japanese women to the Uni
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  • broken dreams  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    This is the lament of all those little Japanese arrivals in 1910 in the US, their three English words and a head full of dreams; to live in a better world ?? Their disappointment is living up to their expectations, for the "good left" turn out v
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  • When literature is polyphonic singing  

    Some had never seen the sea Price Femina Etranger 2012 (Paperback)
    The beautiful novel by Julie Otsuka is a gem. What is immediately striking is the style. The use of "we" and the use of repeating the opening paragraphs and sometimes at the beginning of each sentence create a very special music, a hymn to the i
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