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The electrical field

Kerri Sakamoto
1998308 pages
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12 editions · 5 languages
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When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park in the 1970s, members of a small Ontario suburb must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths about each other and the way their community has been shaped by the dark shadow of World War II internment camps. With all the suspense of a psychological thriller, The Electrical Field slowly exposes all those implicated in the murders - particularly Miss Saito, the novel's unreliable narrator, through whom we gradually discover the truth. Miss Saito, middle-aged, caring for her elderly bed-ridden father and her distracted…

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12 editions · 5 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Pan Books · 320 pages · 9780330390149
  • Other · English · 2018
    Vintage Canada · 9780735274723
  • Other · English · 2000
    W. W. Norton & Company · 320 pages · 9780393320480
  • Other · English · 2000
    Electrical Field
    Pan Macmillan · 308 pages · 9780330391535
  • Other · English · 1999
    Electrical Field
    Macmillan Publishers Limited · 305 pages · 9780333744253
  • Other · English · 1999
    W.W. Norton · 305 pages · 9780393046922
FictionJapaneseConcentration campsMurderConcentration camp inmatesMiddle-aged womenEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945Toronto (ont.), fiction