Itani is an accomplished stylist her prose is lyrical yet clear, her pace unhurried. told with painful and quiet eloquence." Washington Independent Book Review "With Requiem, Itani has written an important and moving novel.
It is also a sobering history lesson for all those Canadians who belittle other countries for their racism but are too smug and too blind to examine their own nation’s transgressions." The Ottawa Citizen Requiem is a great work of literature from a determined author at the peak of her powers. is surely Itani’s greatest novel, although calling Requiem a novel does not do it justice. Itani has told this story in amazing, cinematic detail. The Japanese-Canadian story has never been told with such passion, insight and telling detail. "In Requiem, Frances Itani is at the height of her powers. "Itani writes with a delicate grasp of both the obvious and the unspoken, using ordinary words charged with extraordinary meaning to produce a serious book that nevertheless invites you to keep reading past midnight." BookPage
In this perfectly modulated novel, we see the emotional cost of suppression." The Washington Post Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows.
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