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by Julie Otsuka · 10 X 18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264060532
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En el conmovedor libro 'Certaines n'avaient jamais vu la mer' de Julie Otsuka, somos transportados a principios del siglo XX, donde un grupo de mujeres japonesas emprenden un viaje transformador hacia Estados Unidos. Llevadas por la promesa de un nuevo comienzo, estas valientes mujeres dejan atrás sus hogares y se aventuran en lo desconocido para casarse con hombres a los que solo conocen por fotografías. A través de la prosa lírica de Otsuka, somos testigos de sus esperanzas, sueños y las duras realidades que enfrentan al navegar por un país extranjero, barreras lingüísticas y las complejidades del matrimonio arreglado. Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Otsuka explora temas de identidad, pertenencia y el espíritu perdurable de estas notables mujeres que encontraron fuerza y resistencia frente a la adversidad.
Julie Otsuka is a Japanese-American author. She is known for drawing from her personal life to write autoethnographical historical novels about the life of Japanese Americans. In 2002 she published her first novel, When the Emperor was Divine, which is about the Japanese-American internment camps that took place in 1942-45 during World War II. The story begins in California, where she was born and raised, and it is based on Otsuka's grandfather who was arrested as a suspected spy for Japan the day after Pearl Harbor. Her novel, in 2003, received an award from the Asian American Literary Award and American Library Association Alex Award. Otsuka continued to write about her family's history and in 2011 published her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, which takes place in the early 1900s and discusses the marriages of Japanese women who immigrated to the United States to marry men they knew only through photographs. These women are known as "picture brides" for this reason. During this year, she also published a short story titled "Diem Perdidi," that translates to "I have lost the day," which dives into a more personal space as it is based on her mother who had frontotemporal dementia. This short story was the beginning of her third novel published in 2022 titled, The Swimmers, which further relates her experience as the daughter of a mother with frontotemporal dementia.
