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Lynne Kutsukake

Biography

Lynne Kutsukake

A third-generation Japanese Canadian, Lynne Kutsukake worked for many years as a librarian at the University of Toronto, specializing in Japanese materials. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Grain, The Windsor Review, Ricepaperand Prairie Fire. THE TRANSLATION OF LOVE is her first novel.

Lynne Kutsukake

Books by Lynne Kutsukake

by Lynne Kutsukake - Culture, Family, Family Life, Fiction, History, Military

After spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, 13-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are barred from returning home to the west coast. Grieving the loss of Aya’s mother, they move back to Tokyo, where Aya’s father struggles to find work. Meanwhile, Aya is alienated and bullied at school for being foreign. When a rumor surfaces that General MacArthur might help citizens in need, Aya's classmate, Fumi, asks her to write a letter asking him to find her beloved sister. With no response, the girls take matters into their own hands, venturing into the dark and dangerous underside of Tokyo’s Ginza district.