Julie Otsuka won the 2012
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel "
The Buddha in the Attic". The book's publisher is Alfred A. Knopf. It was chosen from more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors which were published in 2011. Ms. Otsuka will receive $15,000. The awards ceremony will take place May 5 at the
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. "The Buddha in the Attic" is about the lives of Japanese mail-order brides who come to San Francisco in the early 20th century. Julie Otsuka was born in 1962 and is a native of California.
Books by Julie Otsuka in our collection
Information about the winner and the finalists
The four finalists are:
Lost Memory of Skin. By Russell Banks
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. By Don Delillo
The Artist of Disappearance. By Anita Desai
We Others: New and selected stories. By Steven Millhauser
"The Artist of Disappearance. by Anita Desai" Three novellas that have a delicate rhythm and style that ,unfortunately, is not combined with revealing characterizations or creative plotting that would engage the reader and remain in memory.
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