ObasanWinner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 20 |
Section 5 | 27 |
Section 6 | 33 |
Section 7 | 37 |
Section 8 | 52 |
Section 22 | 178 |
Section 23 | 189 |
Section 24 | 198 |
Section 25 | 205 |
Section 26 | 214 |
Section 27 | 217 |
Section 28 | 227 |
Section 29 | 231 |
Section 9 | 57 |
Section 10 | 65 |
Section 11 | 69 |
Section 12 | 78 |
Section 13 | 85 |
Section 14 | 92 |
Section 15 | 131 |
Section 16 | 138 |
Section 17 | 146 |
Section 18 | 150 |
Section 19 | 156 |
Section 20 | 163 |
Section 21 | 169 |
Section 30 | 239 |
Section 31 | 244 |
Section 32 | 250 |
Section 33 | 257 |
Section 34 | 265 |
Section 35 | 272 |
Section 36 | 275 |
Section 37 | 280 |
Section 38 | 289 |
Section 39 | 293 |
Section 40 | 297 |
Section 41 | 302 |
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