An artist of the floating world

Author: Kazua Ishiguro
Citation: Ishiguro, Kazuo. An artist of the floating world, London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
Description: By  the author of, the remains of the day, a Japanese- British novelist, Kazua Ishiguro. A story of Masuji Ono, the artist who work for Japanese imperialism during the second world war. The story’ timeline starts from post war period. The changes of his life, Japanese culture and society after the war. Throughout the book, written in the first narrative, Uno speaks to the readers directly, describes of situation back to the war and how it effects his daughter’s marriage. 
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Publisher weekly, March, 1986 
Library Journal, May, 1986 
Awards
Man Booker Prize Nominee (1986), Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (1986), حائزة على جائزة ويتبريد لعام (1986)
Formats: Print book, ebook
Language: English, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, etc.

When my name was Keoko

Author: Park, Linda Sue

Citation: Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2013.

Description: 

Linda Sue, Korean- American author, tells the story through the perspective of the two children, Sun-hee and her brother, Tae-yul about their hardship in the time of Japanese occupied Korea. The story about the conflict of being forced to adopt the Japanese culture which is why Sun-hee became Keoko.   The struggle to remain of the national identity and history, and the idea of the difference between people of Korea and Japan. The underground anti-Japanese movement was  secretly spread out through Korean communities while some of the young people joined a Japanese kamikaze because the wanted to protect their family from the polices. 

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Publisher weekly, March, 2002 (BIP)

School Library Journal, April, 2002 (BIP)

Awards:

Jane Addams Children's Book Award Nominee for Older Children (2003), Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award Nominee (2005), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2004)

Formats: printbook, ebook, large print, audiobook

Languages: English