Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER â€¢Â â€œAn impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.â€â€”Lisa See

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattleâ€™s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940sâ€”Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotelâ€™s basement for the Okabe familyâ€™s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.

Praise forÂ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

â€œA tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever,Â Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and SweetÂ gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by warâ€”not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.â€â€”Garth Stein, bestselling author ofÂ The Art of Racing in the Rain

â€œMesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.â€â€”Sara Gruen, bestselling author ofÂ Water for Elephants

â€œA wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation onÂ Romeo and JulietÂ . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.â€â€”The Seattle Times

â€œA poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.â€â€”Deseret Morning News

â€œA lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.â€â€”The Oregonian
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780345505330
Color Tan
ReleaseDate 2009-01-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345505330

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780345505330
Color	Tan
ReleaseDate	2009-01-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345505330

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

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