Forgiveness
Subtitle: a gift from my grandparents
By: Mark Sakamoto
Edition: Harper Perennial trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781443417983
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Family; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Biography; Lawyers; Japanese Canadians; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Families
Description: "When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas. On the other side of the country, Mitsue Sakamoto and her family felt their pleasant life in Vancouver starting to fade away after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ralph found himself one of the many Canadians captured by the Japanese in December 1941. He would live out his war in a prison camp, enduring beatings, starvation, electric feet and a journey on a hell ship to Japan, watching his friends and countrymen die all around him. Mitsue and her family were ordered out of their home and were packed off to a work farm in rural Alberta, leaving many of their possessions behind. By the end of the war, Ralph was broken but had survived. The Sakamotos lost everything when the community centre housing their possessions was burned to the ground, and the $25 compensation from the government meant they had no choice but to start again"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "First published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. in a hardcover edition: 2014"--Title page verso.