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I love Danielle Steels style of writing and I’ve read most of her books at least once. I’ve been going to Ollie’s a couple times a week to walk I always stop in the book section. They’ve had a lot of Danielle Steels books I read but didn’t keep like Silent Honor I picked up to add to my library.
From the cover of I wasn’t sure this would be a book I would enjoy or even finish but I loved it and was able to learn thing I didn’t know about Japan I can share with my son. Silent Honor is a fictional novel I found the storyline to be moving and inspirational.
The historical references and timeframe Danielle Steel included in the story were amazing. Silent Honor is a tale of hatred, defiance, and persistent love despite many obstacles most of us wouldn’t have survived. The family ties are bound together as the war ends and young love triumphs over the devastating results of war. As you read Silent Honor if your like me you will find yourself laughing at times and other times crying.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in 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. 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 to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world. Her cousins 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.
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.
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.
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. Silent Honor reveals 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.
About the author: Danielle Steel
She has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with nearly a billion copies of her novels sold. Her recent many international bestsellers include Against All Odds, The Duchess and The Right Time. 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. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.
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Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
