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    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Silent Honor

    Written by Danielle Steel

    Narrated by Boyd Gaines

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    In her 38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving portrayal of families divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shameful episode in recent American history.

    A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. It was the early 1920s and Masao had dreams for the future-and a fascination with the politics and opportunities of a world that was changing every day. Twenty years later, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.

    From the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world-a world of barbeques, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. But in spite of him, and all her promises to her father, Hiroko longs to go home. At college in Berkeley, her world is rapidly and unexpectedly filled with prejudice and fear.

    On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is nonetheless ordered by her father to stay. He is positive she will be safer in California than at home, and for a brief time she is-until her entire world caves in.

    On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives. Hiroko and her uncle's family go first to Tanforan, and from there to the detention center at Tule Lake. This extraordinary novel tells what happened to them there, creating a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love. It tells of Americans who were treated as foreigners in their own land. And it tells Hiroko's story, and that of her American family, as they fight to stay alive amid the drama of life and death in the camp at Tule Lake.

    With clear, powerful prose, Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, her thirty-eighth bestselling novel is both living history and outstanding fiction, revealing the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government...and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.


    From the Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553752540
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    Silent Honor
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    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent portrayal of the injustices suffered by the American Japanese during WWII.
    • 4/5
      It has been years since I read a Danielle Steel book but my neighbor recommended this book to me so I decided to give it a try. It took me about 125 pages to get into the story but once I did I thoroughly enjoyed it. I had no idea how the Japanese people living in this country were treated or those of Japanese descent that were born in the U.S. It was very interesting and sad. I thought the ending was rushed a bit and that more detail could have been given on what else had happened to some of the characters. Overall, this is a very good book.
    • 4/5
      It has been years since I read a Danielle Steel book but my neighbor recommended this book to me so I decided to give it a try. It took me about 125 pages to get into the story but once I did I thoroughly enjoyed it. I had no idea how the Japanese people living in this country were treated or those of Japanese descent that were born in the U.S. It was very interesting and sad. I thought the ending was rushed a bit and that more detail could have been given on what else had happened to some of the characters. Overall, this is a very good book.
    • 5/5
      Inhaltsangabe:Hiroko wurde nach traditionellen Bräuchen der japanischen Kultur erzogen. Umso entsetzter ist sie, als ihr Vater sie für eine gute Ausbildung nach Kalifornien zu Verwandten schickt. Auf ihrer japanischen Herkunft bedacht und sich der amerikanischen Lebensart anpassend beginnt für Hiroko ein neues und verwirrendes Leben. Und mit der Liebe zu Peter Jenkins scheint alles perfekt zu sein, bis die Japaner Pearl Habor angreifen!Die Liebe zu Peter wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Als sie in ein Internierungslager übergesiedelt wird und Peter in den Krieg einrücken muß, wird die Lage noch aussichtsloser. Als sie feststellt, das sie von Peter ein Kind erwartet, glauben alle anderen nicht mehr an Wunder. Nur Hiroko glaubt daran und begeht mühselig ihren Weg!Mein Fazit:Danielle Steel hat sich mit diesem Roman mal wieder selbst übertroffen. Glaubhaft und realistisch erzählt sie die Geschichte der jungen Hiroko, die das Leben in den Internierungslagern von Anfang bis zum Ende durchlebt. Dabei gibt Danielle Steel auch kleine Geheimnisse der japanischen Kultur preis und nicht nur die authentische Hintergrundgeschichte, sondern auch die gesamte Lebensart zwischen Amerikanern und Japanern läßt darauf schließen, das sich die Autorin sehr eingehend und respektvoll mit diesem Thema auseinandersetzt hat. Dies ist nicht nur eine Liebesgeschichte, sondern auch ein Zeugnis von den Spuren des Zweiten Weltkrieges!Neu veröffentlicht am 19.09.14!
    • 5/5
      Danielle Steel, such a good story spinner. I won't say much for her way of writing as I find it repetitive, however no one can top her with her genius in the art of story telling.
    • 5/5
      good story...... enjoyed reading it.