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Obasan
- By: Joy Kogawa
- Narrator: Mary Ito
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Canada
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her... Read more
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