![]() ![]() Beautiful Sumiko has disappeared into the seedy back alleys of the Ginza. Aya's English-language abilities are prized by the principal of her new school, but her status as the "repat girl" makes her a social pariah-until her seatmate, a fierce, willful girl named Fumi Tanaka, decides that Aya might be able to help her find her missing older sister. They arrive in a devastated Tokyo occupied by the Americans under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura is released from a Canadian internment camp in 1946, still grieving the recent death of her mother, and repatriated to Japan with her embittered father. A dazzling New Face of Fiction for 2016 that will appeal to readers of All the Light We Cannot See and Anita Shreve. Set against the pulsing backdrop of post-war Tokyo, The Translation of Love tells the gripping and heartfelt story of a newly repatriated Japanese-Canadian girl who must help a classmate find her missing sister. ![]()
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