When the Emperor Was Divine

Award: 
Year this Award was Won: 
2 003
Award Win Active Date: 
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 19:00
Defunct Winner UID: 
1 681
Winner Rank: 
SLCT
Winner Description: 
Knopf
Winner Blurb: 

A short and understated, but also powerful novel in which members of a Japanese-American family, forced to move from a happy California home to cramped, humiliating detention camps set up by the American government, return home after World War II to find suspicious neighbors, a vandalized house, and a broken family.

Title of a book, article or other published item (this will display to the public): 
When the Emperor Was Divine
ISBN of the winning item: 
0-375-41429-0
What type of media is this winner?: 
Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 05:44
Winner Detail Change Date: 
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 05:44
Winner Detail Change ID: 
227
Winner Type: