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Silent Honor
Silent Honor
Author: Danielle Steel
In her 38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving portrayal of families divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shameful episode in recent American history. — A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780385313018
ISBN-10: 0385313012
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 353
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 72 ratings
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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If you enjoy Danielle Steel books here is another one to enjoy. She wrote this book with the same kind of way of tugging at your heartstrings she always does. Its about how the Japanese Americans were treated here at home during WWII. Highly recommend.
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At 18, Hiroko faces an unfamiliar culture and racial prejudice when she arrives to attend college in America. Her American cousins and Peter, their Caucasian friend, help her adapt to her new life, but nothing can prepare them for what follows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly viewed as enemies, Japanese residents and even U.S. citizens of Japanese descent are deprived of jobs, property, and freedom and sent to internment camps. Secretly married to Peter before he enters the army, Hiroko endures many hardships and losses in the camps. Believing Peter to be missing in action, she returns to Japan after the war only to discover that her entire family has perished. At this bleakest moment in her life, Peter reappears, providing the promise of a happy future. Although it may be predictable, this novel is a reminder of a shameful episode in American history that should not be forgotten.
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Excellent story set during World War II when some American citizens who happened to be Japanese were placed in interment camps. A love story that has a happy ending...
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Danielle Steel never disappoints!
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Was so suprised by the things that happeded to the Japanese who were actually born in america and the ones who were here at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this was actually my second time to read this book and I had the same feelings each time.
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i thought it was good. you really felt for the character.
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Great read
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In her thirty-eigth bestselling novel,Danielle Steel creates a powerful. moving portrayal of families devided,lives shattered,and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shamful episode in recent American history.
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This is one of my favorite Danielle Steel books,I have learn so much of American History from her books.And the way Asia Americans were treaded after Pearl Harbor,it was nothing short of what happened in the consentration camps. I am Native American and I know what it's like to be differt in America, I wish everyone could read this book!
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Hiroko, born in Japan, living in California with her uncle meets Peter Sanford. Pearl Harbor is bombed. President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 allowing the military to remove Japanese families from their communities at will.
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A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. I was August 1941.
From the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new.
On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land.
On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives.
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This is a LARGE PRINT EDITION!
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Silent Honor is both living history and outstanding fiction, revealing the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own govenment....and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.


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