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    The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel
    The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel
    The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel

    Written by Karin Tanabe

    Narrated by Joy Osmanski, Corey Brill and Jacques Roy

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    About this audiobook

    For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the “thought-provoking” (Library Journal, starred review) and “must-read” (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another.

    During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that love can bloom in even the bleakest circumstances.

    When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the United States Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front—and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi—unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart.

    Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi’s parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe—all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive.

    As Christian Lange struggles to adapt to life as a soldier, his unit pushes its way from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a surprise confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For each man, Emi Kato is never far from their minds.

    Flung together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. With her “elegant and extremely gratifying” (USA TODAY) storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781508239925
    Author

    Karin Tanabe

    Karin Tanabe is the author of A Woman of Intelligence, The Gilded Years, The Price of Inheritance, A Hundred Suns, The Diplomat’s Daughter, and The List. A former Politico reporter, her writing has also appeared in the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and The Washington Post. She has made frequent appearances as a celebrity and politics expert on Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and The CBS Early Show. A graduate of Vassar College, Karin lives in Washington, DC. To learn more visit KarinTanabe.com.

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    • 5/5
      An absolute amazing read that I could not put down. Highly recommended

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    • 5/5
      I found it to be interesting learning more about Austria Texas and Japan during WW11
      It was a good blended mixture of characters and read well by both male and female voices.

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    • 5/5
      A very well told tale from the perspective of Japanese, Chinese, German and Americans during the world war. Very well written.
    • 4/5
      Great book! I’m a “tough grader”, so four stars is a very high rating from me. (I can count the number of books I’ve rated as five stars on one hand, and I have listened to or read over a thousand books over the past seven years or so).

      I will definitely read more from this writer. Excellent narration as well.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful readers. A tender and tragic history lesson focussed on, not the heartless leaders, but ordinary families.
    • 5/5
      Good read. You will enjoy it. Nice ending. You will not be disappointed.
    • 3/5
      Interesting insight into some of the WWII intern and refugee history. Story moves along mostly ok but some of the dialogues are unnecessarily long and drawn out.
    • 5/5
      The history the history the history amazing book I can’t wait to listen to it again but I think I’ll listen to her next book 1st excellent excellent
    • 3/5
      While the story is interesting and the writing keeps the reader engaged, I felt a bit disappointed as I was expecting a love story, a love triangle and passion all over the place, but this was simply not there. This might be a result of a misleading synopsis but still, I was left wanting for more. I do appreciate the novel dwells into not so well known historical episodes, including the segregation of Japanese and Germans in the U.S.; the exodus of Jews in Shanghai, among others. I also found it refreshing that the book offers the perspectives of those who were on the “enemy side” and not only the victims. However, I think the story dwelt in too many perspectives and included anecdotes that were not needed m, thus reducing the impact a more specific story might had.
    • 4/5
      I simply l-o-v-e-d this novel, as I found it most interesting.