Thursday, 28 April 2011

Journey Home - Yoshiko Uchida

Yuki Sakane whose parents where from Japan was born in California, USA. In the times when war is raging between Japan and the USA. Yuki and her parents moved to a concetration camp and later to Salt Lake City, leaving her older brother, Kenichi in the US army. Life is now easier for Yuki as she is more free and safe from ambushes from the American at the camp. However, her struggle has just begun as she lives through the pressure and hardship of the outside. Which she hasn't consider before moving into the area. People don't trust because she is a Japanese and she can't even get along with the landlady whose house she lives in. How can you live in a world where everybody sees you as an enemy? Until the war's over can she endure it all?

This book tells the adventure and diary of a young Japanese girl that lived in her country's enemy nation. The storytelling pace is quite fast so the book won't be boring. Why don't you read this book to see what happen to this girl in the end?

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