Book description
In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her
mother's belief in ancient traditions and her father's passion for
modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To
Hiroko, California is a different world - a world of barbecues,
station wagons and college. Her cousins in California have become more
American than Japanese - and Hiroko also finds a link between her old
and new worlds when she becomes friendly with Peter, her uncle's
university assistant.
But on December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, and
within hours, war is declared. Suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in
a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is ordered by her
father to stay. But as the military is empowered to remove the
Japanese from their communities, Hiroko and her Californian family end
up in the detention centre, where they fight to stay alive amid the
drama of life and death in the camp.
This extraordinary novel creates a portrait of human tragedy and
strength, divided loyalties and love. Danielle Steel portrays the
human cost of that terrible time in history, as well as the remarkable
courage of a people whose honour and dignity transcended the chaos
that surrounded them.
Danielle Steel is one of the world's most popular writers, with
over 530 million copies of her novels sold. She is the author of many
international bestsellers including His Bright Light, the story
of her son Nick Traina's life and death.
Visit the Danielle Steel Web Site at www. daniellesteelbooks. co. uk
