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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the thought-provoking and novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another. During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that love can bloom in even the bleakest circumstances. When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the United States Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front-and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi-unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart. Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi's parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe-all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive. As Christian Lange struggles to adapt to life as a soldier, his unit pushes its way from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a surprise confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For each man, Emi Kato is never far from their minds. Flung together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. With her elegant and extremely gratifying storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.… (meer)
Although I had this audio book for a couple years, I just finally got around to listening to it. It was actually very good. Very Sad in many ways on how the Japanese and the Germans were gathered up and sent to internment camps in the US during the war - A Japanese diplomat's daughter who had lived in many countries,, was living in the US at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her family was sent out of DC to a temporary housing hotel until they could be sent back to Japan & traded for US Diplomats - unfortunately Emmie got TB and was unable to travel back with her father; she and her mother could not stay at the hotel after the father was sent back to Japan and were then sent to an internment camp with other non americans waiting to be re-patrionated back to Japan and/or Germany - There she meets Christian, an american born of German parents who were also interned. The war united them and then separated them. Christian (American born) decided to join the US Military to avoid being deported with his parents Emmie back in Japan, is surviving barely while the town she is staying in is occupied by German Troops - finally the war is ended and she waits to hear if Christian, her teenage sweetheart survives or Leo her childhood Austrian sweetheart survives. It is a war story, a love story and a reminder of how families living in the United States were gathered up and put in camps to be deported during war. A lesson to remember. ( )
4.5 stars. Really enjoyed this book and the three characters. It's an unusual story of this time period but I appreciated it for that aspect. It was believable even when it seemed crazy that these things could be happening. ( )
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the thought-provoking and novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another. During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that love can bloom in even the bleakest circumstances. When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the United States Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front-and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi-unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart. Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi's parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe-all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive. As Christian Lange struggles to adapt to life as a soldier, his unit pushes its way from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a surprise confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For each man, Emi Kato is never far from their minds. Flung together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. With her elegant and extremely gratifying storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.
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