Anny P. (wolfnme) reviewed on 7/17/2006 + 3389 more book reviews

A man ahead of his time. Japanese college professor, Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter Horoko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Matu to come to Califofrnia for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.
From the ship she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle and his family. California was a different world. Her cousins had become more American than Japnese. And much to her surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford became an unexpected link between her old world and her new.
On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours war is declared and sudenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land.
Steel portrays not only the human cost of the terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Silent Honor reveals the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government...and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.

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