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Joy Kogawa

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June 06, 1935 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Joy Kogawa is best known for her award-winning novel OBASAN (1981), one of the Literary Review of Canada's 100 Most Important Canadian Books. Obasan is a lyrical and heart-rending account of the losses and suffering endured by Japanese Canadians during WWII. The story is told from the perspective of a middle-aged woman, Naomi Nakane, remembering her experiences as a young girl. Kogawa has also published a picture book about these events, Naomi's Road (1986), and a young adult novel in Japanese, titled Naomi No Michi. A children's opera based on Naomi's Road was premiered by VANCOUVER OPERA in 2005. Kogawa continued Naomi's story in her 1992 Itsuka (revised and published under the title Emily Kato in 2005).

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Average rating: 3.45 · 1,752 ratings · 165 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Obasan 3.45 avg rating — 1,637 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Itsuka 3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Naomi's Road 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Rain Ascends 3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Naomi's Tree by Joy Kogawa, Ruth Ohi (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Song of Lilith by Joy Kogawa, Lilian Broca (Illustrations) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Emily Kato 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	A Choice Of Dreams 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Jericho Road 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977	My rating:

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