Description: A unique memoir by a young Japanese-Canadian poet torn from his family and interned in distant labour camps for the "crime" of being Japanese during the Second World War
Brief description: TAKEO UJO NAKANO was born in Japan and immigrated to Canada in 1920. He worked in the British Columbia lumber industry for twenty years before his internment during the Second World War. After the war, he settled with his family in Toronto, continuing his cultivation of tanka.
Review Quotes: "What sets Nakano's memoir apart is his poetic sensibility...A reaffirmation of the strength of the human spirit in adversity and the healing power of forgiveness."--Globe and Mail