Novels

The Swimmers

“Award-winning, best-selling Otsuka is averaging one book per decade, making each exquisite title exponentially more precious. Here she creates a stupendous collage of small moments that results in an extraordinary examination of the fragility of quotidian human relationships . . . Once more, Otsuka creates an elegiac, devastating masterpiece.”

     -Booklist Starred Review

The Buddha in the Attic

“Spare and stunning. . . . By using the collective ‘we’ to convey a constantly shifting, strongly held group identity within which distinct individuals occasionally emerge and recede, Otsuka has created a tableau as intricate as the pen strokes her humble immigrant girls learned to use in letters to loved ones they’d never see again.”

     -– Celia McGee, O, The Oprah Magazine

When the Emperor

was Divine

“[Otsuka’s] voice never falters, equally adept at capturing horrific necessity and accidental beauty. Her unsung prisoners of war contend with multiple front lines, and enemies who wear the faces of neighbors and friends. ...by the time you finish this exceptional debut, you will recognize that their struggle has always been yours.”

     – Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad

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