A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.

Sending to Oedde as part of the HGG group. Enjoy!

Thank you very much, lauraloo29!! Thank you for granting me my most recent wish, which I put on my wishlist because I'm interested in Canadian literature and I read that this was something of a classic. I look forward to reading it.

I'm sad to say I never read it - it just never was the right moment for this book. Because I'm downsizing my own bookshelf, I'm now releasing this on a public bookshelf which is frequented by people who read in English. Hopefully, somebody else will appreciate Obasan.