The Swimmers by Otsuka, Julie
The Swimmers by Otsuka, Julie

The Swimmers

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER - From the award-winning author of The Buddha in...
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Author: Julie Otsuka
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Language: English
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The Swimmers by Otsuka, Julie

The Swimmers

$52.10
The Swimmers by Otsuka, Julie

The Swimmers

$52.10
Author: Julie Otsuka
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER - From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother's dementia and her daughter's love" (The Washington Post).

The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.

One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.

Author: Julie Otsuka
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593321331


Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2021 pg. 9
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021
Booklist 12/15/2021 pg. 84
Library Journal 02/01/2022 pg. 65

About the Author
JULIE OTSUKA was born and raised in California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine won the 2003 Asian American Literary Award and the 2003 American Library Association's Alex Award. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2011 and won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2011 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. The Buddha in the Attic was an international best seller and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger in 2012, and the Albatros Literaturpreis in 2013. She lives in New York City.

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