Before reading Requiem, I knew of the American experience but not the Canadian one and had never imagined the details. Itani describes this as “a highly organized maneuver” exercised in conjunction with the internment of 114,000 Japanese-Americans. Requiem, her second novel, is less self-consciously poetic than Deafening - yet stronger because of it especially since the facts underpinning this narrative are shocking to learn.Īfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 21,000 Japanese-Canadians were forcibly removed from their homes and interned in inland camps. She had written nine books before her American debut with the novel Deafening, which won the Commonwealth Prize in 2004. Canadian writer Frances Itani is at the top of her game, but many American readers may not know her work.
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