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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Kutsukake, Lynne.     Subjects     Girls -- Fiction.     Japanese Canadians -- Fiction.     Deportation -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Fiction.     Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kutsukake, Lynne.       by title:      The translation of l...       by call number:      FICTION KUT     Search the Web     Kutsukake, Lynne.     Girls -- Fiction.     Japanese Canadians -- Fiction.     Deportation -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Fiction.     Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The translation of love : a novel / Lynne Kutsukake. by Kutsukake, Lynne. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016. Call #: FICTION KUT Subjects Girls -- Fiction.   Japanese Canadians -- Fiction.   Deportation -- Fiction.   Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Missing persons -- Fiction.   Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Fiction.   Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780345809377 Description:  318 p. ; 25 cm. Summary:  "After spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are faced with a gut-wrenching choice: move east of the Rocky Mountains or go 'back' to Japan. Barred from returning home to the West Coast and bitterly grieving the loss of Aya's mother during internment, Aya's father signs a form that enables the government to deport them. But war-devastated Tokyo is not much better. Aya's father struggles to find work, compromising his morals and toiling long hours. Meanwhile, Aya, born and raised in Vancouver, is something of a pariah at her school, bullied for being foreign and paralyzed when asked to communicate in Japanese. Aya's alienation is eventually mitigated by one of her principal tormenters, a willful girl named Fumi Tanaka, whose older sister has mysteriously disappeared. When a rumor surfaces that General MacArthur, who is overseeing the Occupation, might help citizens in need, Fumi enlists Aya to compose a letter asking him to find her beloved sister. The letter is delivered into the reluctant hands of Corporal Matt Matsumoto, a Japanese American serving with the Occupation forces, whose endless job is translating the thousands of letters MacArthur receives each week. Although Matt feels an affinity with Fumi, he is largely powerless, and the girls decide to take matters into their own hands, venturing into the dark and dangerous underside of Tokyo's Ginza district. Told through rich, interlocking story lines, The Translation of Love mines this turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of people on both sides--and yet the novel also allows for a poignant spark of resilience, friendship, and love that translates across cultures and borders to stunning effect."--From publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. First novel. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION KUT Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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