Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei

by Keibo Oiwa

With the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, all persons of Japanese descent were declared 'enemy aliens.' Their assets were seized and most of the Japanese Canadian population was relocated or sent to internment camps. Stone Voices is a selection of memoirs, diaries, and letters written by four Issei, the first generation of Japanese to settle in Canada. "I devoured these stories in one hungry afternoon of reading...as I read, I ranged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550650149
• ISBN13: 9781550650143
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"