For fans of All the Light WE CAN NOT See and Orphan Train, the author of the “thought-provoking” (Library Journal, starred review) and “must-read” (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating story of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their trip back to one particular another.

During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is certainly locked behind barbed wire inside a Texas internment about The Diplomat’s Daughter: A Novel camp. She feels hopeless until she fits handsome youthful Christian Lange, whose German-born parents had been wrongfully caught for un-American activities. Jointly, they live as prisoners with thousands of various other German and Japanese households, but find that love can bloom in also the bleakest situations.

When Emi and her mother are abruptly repaid to Japan, Christian enlists in america Army, with his sights set within the Pacific front-and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi-unaware that her first like, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and today a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart.

Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi’s parents send her to a remote resort city in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Take off from her family members, struggling with developing depression and craving for food, Emi repeatedly dangers her life to help keep her community safe-all while thinking if both men she adores are still alive.

As Christian Lange problems to adjust to life as a soldier, his device pushes its method in the South Pacific to Okinawa, where among the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. In the mean time, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo battles to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a shock confrontation having a Nazi officer threatens his existence. For each guy, Emi Kato is definitely never far from their minds.

Flung collectively by war, enthusiasm, and extraordinary serves of selflessness, the paths of these 3 remarkable young people will collide as the fighting for the Pacific front side crescendos. With her “elegant and intensely gratifying” (USA TODAY) storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.