Questions 27 & 28
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Questions 27 & 28
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In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they were required to answer the so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question 27 asked the inmates―who had been imprisoned without cause by the US military―whether they were willing to serve in combat for the US military. Question 28 asked them―many of whom American citizens who had never visited Japan―to renounce allegiance to the Japanese emperor. Answering these questions caused volatile divisions within the camps, tore families and friends apart, and had lasting repercussions in the decades postwar.
Questions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century, their children who came of age during war and incarceration, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb, she gives voice to laborers, artists, scholars, informants, and activists who, over three generations, defined an immigrant community.
© 2026 by Karen Tei Yamashita. ℗ 2026 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
批評家のレビュー
“[An] ambitious, wide-ranging pastiche of fiction and documentation, a hybrid novel that also serves as an idiosyncratic history of the Japanese experience in America before, during and after the war.” —Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review
“Expertly performed by a full cast that allows individual voices to tell their unique stories, this novel lends itself well to audio. It weaves the often fraught narratives of many disparate Japanese Americans, both those born in Japan and those born in the U.S..… Based in part on archival materials and a famous University of California relocation study, Yamashita’s novel mingles fact and fiction. This is an audio marvel.” —Kirkus Audiobook Reviews, Earphones Award Winner