Silent Honour

Written by: Danielle Steel
Category: Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction, Romance, War / WWII

Book Details:

ISBN 10: 0552141321
ISBN 13: 9780552141321
Format: paperback
Publisher: Corgi / Bantam Press (Transworld Publishers)
Date Published: 1997, Great Britain (Bantam Press edition 1997)
Language: English
Edition: Bantam Press printing published 1997 (Corgi edition)
Condition: Acceptable
Appearance: Paperback with heavy external wear: front and back covers creased with multiple surface cracks and a vertical crease on the front; rounded and bumped corners; small tears and edge wear at spine ends; sticker residue/price sticker area on back near barcode; pages show age-toning and light foxing at edges; binding appears intact but spine is creased from reading.

Synopsis:

Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, SILENT HONOUR tells of the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive. In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother's belief in ancient traditions and her father's passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To Hiroko, California is a different world -- a world of barbecues, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California have become more American than Japanese -- and Hiroko also finds a link between her old and new worlds when she becomes friendly with Peter, her uncle's university assistant. But on December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, and within hours, war is declared. Suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is ordered by her father to stay. But as the military is empowered to remove the Japanese from their communities, Hiroko and her Californian family end up in the detention centre, where they fight to stay alive amid the damage of life and death in the camp. This extraordinary novel creates a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love. Danielle Steel portrays the human cost of that terrible time in history, as well as the remarkable courage of a people whose honour and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them.

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