The Buddha in the Attic Suclass Code_1FH Delia Hopkins has led a

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life

new friends

Nineteen years later

Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness

The Buddha in the Attic Suclass Code_1FH Delia Hopkins has led aJulie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non English speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands to be whom they had yet to meet.