Two Homelands
Book (italiano):
They were a typical American family except, of course, theirs was not a typical Hollywood American family, owing to their being of Japanese descent. Then came Pearl Harbor, and their nationality, was questioned by those around them. Eventually they split, fought for both the US and Japan, and their loyalty to themselves and each other was sorely tried. Novelist Yamasaki does a brilliant job of defining what three brothers had to do to survive World War II, poised as they were on the cliffs between the two cultures. This English-language translation, published 25 years after its original in Japanese, is still haunting, with the voices of the brothers, their family and those around them debating what it meant to love one country when one was expected to hate both cultures, hate both, love one or love both, and be condemned regardless. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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