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Buddha in the Attic

By Julie Otsuka
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

Commoner

By John Burnham Schwartz

In 1959, Haruko marries the Prince of Japan, becoming the first commoner to enter the mysterious world of Japanese royalty.

Memoirs of a Geisha

By Arthur Golden

"The memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, as a little girl in 1929, she is sold into slavery; her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha; the impact of World War II; and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves (From the Publisher)."

Samurai's Garden

By Gail Tsukiyama
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, January 26, 2010.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Set in Japan just before WWII, the novel tells of a young Chinese man's encounters with four locals while he recuperates from tuberculosis.

Shogun

By James Clavell
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Megan Kass, Systems Manager

After John Blackthorne shipwrecks in Japan, he makes himself useful to a feudal lord in a power struggle with another and becomes a samurai.