When the Emperor Was Divine

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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 2003

Copyright © 2002 by Julie Otsuka, Inc.

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The chapter “Evacuation Order No. 19” appeared, in slightly different form, in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998, edited by Carol Shields, John Kulka, and Natalie Danford.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Otsuka, Julie.

When the emperor was divine: a novel / by Julie Otsuka.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Japanese Americans—Evacuation and relocation, 1942–1945—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—California—Fiction. 3. Japanese American families—Fiction. 4. Concentration camps—Fiction. 5. California—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3615.T88 W48 2002

813’.6—dc21 2002020814

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