But Bin must ask himself: does he really want to confront the ghosts of the past, or is it time to finally let them go?Ī novel of grief, coming-of-age, and coming to terms with our own personal histories, " Requiem is a great work of literature from a determined author at the peak of her powers" ( Ottawa Citizen). Requiem:. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Accompanied by his dog, his classical music tapes, and his memories, he intends to find his biological father whose fateful decision destroyed his family all those years ago. Buy Requiem by Itani, Frances from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. For Bin, it was never forgotten, nor forgiven.įifty years later, after his wife's death, Bin embarks on a road trip across Canada. One hundred miles from the "Protected Zone," abandoned by his father, Bin spends the next five years struggling to adapt in the makeshift shacks of the brutal mountain community. Allowed to take only the possessions they can carry, Bin watches looters raid his home before the transport boats even undock. Itani includes nods to Joy Kogawas Obasan, the most famous novel about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, but in its own right, Requiem represents an. In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removes young Bin Okuma and his family from their home at a British Columbia coastal fishing village and forces them into internment camps. A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this "evocative and cinematic tale" ( Maclean's).
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