title: Obasan
author:  Joy Kogawa 
description: "This quiet novel burns in your hand." --<i>Washington Post</i>.
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  OBASAN
  	
  	
  	
  Joy	Kogawa
  
  First	published	by	Lester	&	Orpen	Dennys	Ltd.,	Canada,	1981
  Penguin	Group	(Canada)	a	division	of	Pearson	Penguin	Canada	Inc.,	1983,	2003
  David	R.	Godine	Publisher	Inc.,	U.S.A.,1982
  Reclam	Verlag,	Germany,	1993
  Doubleday,	An	Anchor	Book,	U.S.A.,	1994
  De	Geus,	Netherlands,	1997
  Chuokoron,	Japan,	1998
  	
  Copyright	©	Joy	Kogawa,	2012,	Kagami	Publishing
  	
  All	rights	reserved.	Without	limiting	the	rights	under	copyright	reserved	above,	no	part	of	this
  publication	may	be	reproduced,	stored	in	or	introduced	into	a	retrieval	system,	or	transmitted	in
  any	form	or	by	any	means	(electronic,	mechanical,	photocopying,	recording	or	otherwise),
  without	the	prior	written	permission	of	both	the	copyright	owner	and	the	above	publisher	of
  this	book.
  	
  Layout,	Baye	Hunter,	Gordon	Kogawa
  Copy	Editor,	Deidre	Canute
  Cover	photograph,	courtesy	Joy	Kogawa
  Cover	design,	Baye	Hunter
  	
  Obasan	/	Joy	Kogawa.
  	
  ISBN	978-0-9691678-1-5
  	
  1.	Japanese	Canadians-Evacuation	and	relocation,	1