Ebook {Epub PDF} Anshu: Dark Sorrow by Juliet Kono

 · Based on historical events, ANSHU is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai'i and the devastation in Hiroshima. A pregnant and unmarried Hilo teenager, Himiko Aoki, finds her Hawai'i Japanese American identity clashing with Japan's cultural norms when she is sent to live with relatives in Tokyo in and becomes trapped .  · Posted on January 1, by Daniel Casey. Juliet S. Kono, Anshu: Dark Sorrow, Bamboo Ridge Press, Juliet Kono’s novel, Anshu, is a lovely book. Easily read, well paced, packed with interesting characters, situations, and events, a feast of well chiseled stories. But to say that Anshu is a lovely novel is only to remark on the mechanics of the novel, how well it is www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.  · ANSHU is Juliet S. Kono's first novel. Her previous publications include two books of poetry, HILO RAINS and TSUNAMI YEARS; a collaborative work of linked poems with three other poets, NO CHOICE BUT TO FOLLOW; a short story collection, HONOLULU PARK AND THE PEPSODENT SMILE; and a children's book, The Bravest 'Opihi.5/5(7).

Anshu: Dark Sorrow by Juliet S. Kono. Anshu is a singular achievement, a novel that captures better than most the unique suffering of a people, a place and a time through the experience of a. Winner of the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award for Excellence in Literature. Based on historical events, Anshu is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawaiʻi and the devastation in Hiroshima. A pregnant, unmarried Hilo teenager, Himiko Aoki, finds her Hawaiʻi. Anshu Dark Sorrow. Read For Peace Book Selection Honoka'a Library Book Group Juliet S. Kono, the author of this compelling and beautifully written story, is from Hilo and lives with her husband in Honolulu. Her heroine, Himiko, is strong-willed and sensitive. As her difficult life unfolds, she changes and gains compassion for others.

Posted on January 1, by Daniel Casey. Juliet S. Kono, Anshu: Dark Sorrow, Bamboo Ridge Press, Juliet Kono’s novel, Anshu, is a lovely book. Easily read, well paced, packed with interesting characters, situations, and events, a feast of well chiseled stories. But to say that Anshu is a lovely novel is only to remark on the mechanics of the novel, how well it is written. dark sorrow by Juliet Kono ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 22, Kono’s (Ho'olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile and Other Stories, , etc.) debut full-length novel is a bildungsroman based on historical events, which traces a brave teenager’s journey to Tokyo during World War II. Anshu: Dark Sorrow. by. Juliet Kono. · Rating details · 49 ratings · 7 reviews. Fiction. Based on historical events, ANSHU is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai'i and the devastation in Hiroshima.