Chikara!

By Robert Skimin

Book Overview

First published in 1984, this remarkable story of a Japanese American family, received accolades to this day. From 1907, through WWI, adventure and discrimination, Pearl Harbor and WWII, Hiroshima to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312131828
• ISBN13: 9780312131821
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 541 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best Book in the Century

Chikara is a novel filled with critical analogy, emotions of the bombing in Hiromshima, and it is of three generation that was torn a part. When the father left for America and his wife and sons had to stay back in Japan. With the different experiences that took place and the hardships one person had to go through, effected everyone in the family. This is a great book.