| The Electrical Field Contributor(s): Sakamoto, Kerri (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393320480 ISBN-13: 9780393320480 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: A rare and haunting debut about memory and murder, "The Electrical Field" is about the unusual friendship between an aging Japanese-Canadian woman and a young girl desperate to uncover the truth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98030649 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 4.94" W x 9" (0.94 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Geographic Orientation - Montana |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 73803 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of a small Ontario suburb in the 1970s must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths about one another and the way their community has been shaped by the dark shadow of World War II internment camps. With all the suspense of a psychological thriller, The Electrical Field slowly exposes all those implicated in the murders -- particularly Miss Saito, the novel's unreliable narrator, through whom we gradually discover the truth. Like Kazuo Ishiguru in A Pale View of Hills, Kerri Sakamoto invokes a Japanese sense of the relativity of memory and reliability of consciousness. Miss Saito, middle-aged, caring for her elderly, bed-ridden father and her distracted younger brother, on the surface seems to be a passive observer. But her own disturbed past and her craving for an emotional connection will prove to have profound consequences. A masterful and elegant story of passion, memory, and regret, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past and into Canada's communal response to war. A reading group guide is bound into this paperback edition. |