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“The Diplomat’s Daughter,” outwardly a meditation on love in a time of war, pushes boundaries to reveal a sensitive exploration of three young adults forced into confronting the fragility of a world where, as Yeats once so aptly noted, “the center cannot hold.” Through Emi Kato, the novel’s heroine (and eponymous diplomat’s daughter), we are introduced to separate, but equally harrowing, representations of the decaying human condition: Anti-Semitic Austria, American internment camps, squalid Shanghai ghettos, austerity and starvation in war-time Japan, and the blood stained South Pacific front lines.

The breadth of the novel is enormous, and yet author Karin Tanabe is able to gather each thread with a deftness that provides an incredibly satisfying experience for those who like their historical fiction to be cinematically epic. While there are no shortage of books revolving around WWII, “The Diplomat’s Daughter,” differs in that it offers a chance to delve into lesser known atrocities of the era. I was particularly moved by the depiction of Shanghai, where Leo Hartmann, Emi’s childhood sweetheart, finds himself struggling to survive with his family after fleeing Nazi Austria. Tanabe show us that while Leo avoids certain death due to the benevolence of the Japanese, he is still marginalized by their alliance with the Axis powers, and that his Chinese neighbors suffer even more. It’s this kind of “give with one hand, take from the other” observation that makes the novel so powerful. Tanabe has a knack for illustrating the contradictory grey areas that come from the political clashing with the human.

I was a big fan of Karin Tanabe’s historical fiction novel, “The Gilded Years,” and was happy to find that her usual eye for detail and vivid characterizations remain keen in this latest effort. Definitely check out “The Diplomat’s Daughter” if you liked “The Gilded Years” (and if you haven’t read that, I recommend picking it up as well!)


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The Diplomat Daughter A Novel Karin Tanabe 9781501110474 Books Reviews

Enjoyed the novel. It moved quickly. There were three main characters and each chapter is label by the character's name and date in history. The novel includes starvation, bravery, love of family, romances, the piano, hard decisions, cruelty, war and violence, caring friends, gossips, travel by ships and trains, bombs, and more. After you read this book, I highly recommend "The Partisan" by William Jarvis. This historical fiction book will help you understand the church involvement during WWII and is based on actual facts. I would like to read a follow up of the main characters' lives. I remember my father's friend bringing his Japanese wife to visit us when I was a young girl. This book deserves an A++++++
Absolutely loved this book and even though I especially love WWII historical fiction and have read many books, I learned so much history reading The Diplomat's Daughter. From the internment camp in Crystal City, Texas, that housed not only Japanese and German diplomats and their families, some American born, to the Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, and the bloody battles fought in the Pacific. What a trip around the world! This will be a book that I will kept and reread. Thank you Karin Tanabe for this beautiful story.
Diplomat's Daughter is a beautifully written book with poignantly drafted characters who draw you in and reignite your belief in humanity despite all appearances of basic decency collapsing around them. Tanabe's visual prose paints a story that places you in a time and place of a world torn apart, families separated, and love divided. Yet throughout the book, and without preaching or beating the reader over the head, she reminds the reader we cannot conflate one person as representative of a group; that everyone is capable of great acts of courage and selflessness even when all around humans are displaying the depths of our capacity for cruelty. Her three main characters, intertwined by love and bound across continents, are brought together by Tanabe's ability to place you beside the character in the moment as you read their story. The author was also able to provide fresh historical details about a time in history most feel previously well covered. The romance is engaging without being sappy. This book is excellent for those looking for a gripping, well crafted story that encompasses a love story within a dramatic historical novel with moments of tense conflict.
“The Diplomat’s Daughter,” outwardly a meditation on love in a time of war, pushes boundaries to reveal a sensitive exploration of three young adults forced into confronting the fragility of a world where, as Yeats once so aptly noted, “the center cannot hold.” Through Emi Kato, the novel’s heroine (and eponymous diplomat’s daughter), we are introduced to separate, but equally harrowing, representations of the decaying human condition Anti-Semitic Austria, American internment camps, squalid Shanghai ghettos, austerity and starvation in war-time Japan, and the blood stained South Pacific front lines.

The breadth of the novel is enormous, and yet author Karin Tanabe is able to gather each thread with a deftness that provides an incredibly satisfying experience for those who like their historical fiction to be cinematically epic. While there are no shortage of books revolving around WWII, “The Diplomat’s Daughter,” differs in that it offers a chance to delve into lesser known atrocities of the era. I was particularly moved by the depiction of Shanghai, where Leo Hartmann, Emi’s childhood sweetheart, finds himself struggling to survive with his family after fleeing Nazi Austria. Tanabe show us that while Leo avoids certain death due to the benevolence of the Japanese, he is still marginalized by their alliance with the Axis powers, and that his Chinese neighbors suffer even more. It’s this kind of “give with one hand, take from the other” observation that makes the novel so powerful. Tanabe has a knack for illustrating the contradictory grey areas that come from the political clashing with the human.

I was a big fan of Karin Tanabe’s historical fiction novel, “The Gilded Years,” and was happy to find that her usual eye for detail and vivid characterizations remain keen in this latest effort. Definitely check out “The Diplomat’s Daughter” if you liked “The Gilded Years” (and if you haven’t read that, I recommend picking it up as well!)