- Japanese Americans, Fiction, open_syllabus_project, rising sun
A Japanese-American decides not to serve in the war. The book unfolds the societal and familial consequences he faces for that decision.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- John Okada
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 260
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, Penguin Classics, Combined Asian American Resources Project
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780295994048
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First sentence
“TWO WEEKS AFTER his twenty-fifth birthday, Ichiro got off a bus at Second and Main in Seattle.”
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