Obasan
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 An American paperback edition of Obasan. |
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| Author | Joy Kogawa |
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| Cover artist | not stated (first edition, hardcover), Hal Roth (Anchor Books edition) |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Asian Studies |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Lester & Orpen Dennys (First edition, hardcover), Penguin Canada (Canadian paperback edition), Anchor Books (American paperback edition) |
| Released | 1981 |
| Released in English | 1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 250 (First edition, hardcover), 300 (Anchor Books edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-919630-42-1 (First edition, hardcover), ISBN 0-14-305502-X (Penguin Canada paperback edition), ISBN 0-385-46886-5 (Anchor Books edition) |
| Preceded by | Jericho Road |
| Followed by | Woman in the Woods |
Obasan, first published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, is a novel by the Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. It chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during World War II from the perspective of a young child.
Kogawa uses strong imagery of silence, stones and streams throughout the novel. Themes depicted in the novel include, memory and forgetting, prejudice and tolerance, identity, and justice versus injustice.
This book is often required reading for university English courses on Canadian Literature.
In 2005, it was the One Book, One Vancouver selection.
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