Requiem

Resource Information

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Label

Requiem

Statement of responsibility

Frances Itani

Creator

• Itani, Frances, 1942-

Author

• Itani, Frances, 1942-

Subject

• Concentration camps -- Fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Fiction
• Artists -- Fiction
• Japanese -- Canada -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Japanese -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
• Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

During World War II, Canada interned citizens of Japanese descent, just as the United States did. Here, Itani recaptures history through fiction by imagining the story of young Bin Okuma and his family, who were transported from their British Columbia home to a desolate area 100 miles from the "Protected Zone" and only grudgingly given access to food, plumbing, and electricity. Fifty years later, after his wife dies, Bin returns to the area, hoping to find the father whose awful decision at the time nearly destroyed the family

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9199.3.I83

LC item number

R47 2011

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries