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Silent Honor (Danielle Steel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Danielle Steel
Creator: Boyd Gaines
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 695560
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 4
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0553477617
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553477610
ASIN: 0553477617
Publication Date: November 1, 1996
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Product Description
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 wife's belief in ancient traditions. It was the early 1920s and Masao had dreams for the future--and a fascination with the politics and opportunities of a world that was changing every day. Twenty years later, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Mare to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.
From the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world--a world of barbeques,
station wagons and college. Her cousins in California 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. But in spite of him, and all her promises to her father, Hiroko longs to go home. At college in Berkeley, her world is rapidly and unexpectedly filled with prejudice and fear.
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. Terrified,
begging to go home, she is nonetheless ordered by her father to stay. He is positive she will be safer in California than at home, and for a brief time she is--until her entire world caves in.
On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the 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. Hiroko and her uncle's family go first to Tanforan, and from there to the detention center at Tule Lake. This extraordinary novel tells what happened to them there, creating a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love. It tells of Americans who were treated as foreigners in
their own land. And it tells Hiroko's story, and that of her American family, as they fight to stay alive amid the drama of life and death in the camp at
Tule Lake.
With clear, powerful prose, Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, her thirty-eighth bestselling novel is both living history and outstanding fiction, revealing the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government...and the triumph of a woman
caught between cultures and determined to survive.
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 Super great story, easy to read. You'll miss the characters when your done with the book! December 18, 2007
I love how Danielle Steel often incorporates history into her stories. I didn't know much about the relocation of the American Japanese but I do now. This is an easy read, as all DS books are.
One of the best books I have ever read! September 14, 2007
Throughout this book, you will show just about every emotion possible. I was giddy, I was sad, excited, angry, and I cried a lot!
This book showed me what it was like for the Japanese and Japanese-Americans during this time. To be honest, I was kind of clueless until now.
I fell in love with Hiroko and everyone around her. All of their strength and courage are just a few of the qualities that everyone should strive to have.
This is one of the best books, if not the best book, I have ever read! I'm sure anyone who reads it will absolutely LOVE it!
Silent Honor October 3, 2006
I really enjoyed this book. The topic is one I was not really informed about and I enjoyed learning about the Japanese customs and what they went through during WWII. I loved the characters and lived their joys and heartbreak with them. The last Danielle Steel I read was a dud so I was not really looking forward to this one but I am pleasantly surprised. I will continue to give Ms Steel a try.
A Great moving story, HAPPY and SAD August 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great, moving story about Hiroko, a girl from Japan who comes to live with her uncle, and cousins in California to attend college. This story tells of the prejudices of the Japanese, and Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the family's losses during WW II but it also tells a love of Hiroko and her American boyfriend who befriends her despite her being Japanese, and falls in love with her. I loved this book, and I cried during certain parts of this book, it was that moving. I loved it, and I know you will too. It is very fast-moving and an easy read. I couldn't put it down. I read this book in 2 days.
20 Stars if I could!!! August 14, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Silent Honor*****
Oh, my. Where do I begin? First of all, I thank DS for wring it, because if it wasn't for her, I would have never found an intrest toward our World Wars I/II or a softnes to Japanese people, their language or their culture.
I'd give this book 20 stars and counting. Highly recomended.
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