The Diplomat’s Daughter is a historical fiction novel that follows three main characters – Emi Kato, Leo Hartmann, and Christian Lange – during World War II and its aftermath.

Emi is the daughter of a Japanese diplomat and grows up in Washington D.C. She feels torn between her Japanese heritage and her American upbringing. After the Pearl Harbor attack, she and her family are sent to an internment camp in Texas. There, she falls in love with Christian, a German-American boy who also faces prejudice and discrimination.

Leo, a Jewish-Austrian refugee, meets Emi in Vienna before the war breaks out. They become close friends and later reunite in America, where Leo becomes a translator for the U.S. government. As the war comes to an end, all three characters struggle to reconcile their identities and past experiences. They face challenges of forgiveness, acceptance, and finding their place in a world that has drastically changed. Overall, The Diplomat’s Daughter explores themes of love, identity, and the impact of war on individuals and relationships.

• The Diplomat’s Daughter

• A Novel
• By: Karin Tanabe
• Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Corey Brill, Jacques Roy

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the “thought-provoking” (Library Journal) and “must-read” (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another.

In the tumultuous months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, 21-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, was locked behind barbed wire in an internment camp in Texas. She feels hopeless until she meets a handsome young Christian Lange, whose German parents have been unjustly arrested for non-American activities. They live together as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families but discover that love can blossom even in the bleakest of circumstances.

When Emi and her mother are suddenly sent back to Japan, Christian joins the United States Army, with his aim being the Pacific front – and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi, unaware that Her first love, Leo Hartmann, the wealthy son of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart.

Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi’s parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe – all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive.

As Christian Lange struggles to adjust to life as a soldier, his unit advances from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive in the squalid Jewish ghetto, an unexpected confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For both men, Emi Kato was never far from their minds.

Drawn together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will clash as the war on the Pacific front reaches its climax. With “elegant and supremely satisfying” storytelling (USA Today), Karin Tanabe paints a beautiful portrait of a turning point in history.

A deep understanding of what the Japanese, and Americans went thru during world war II on a personal level. Very well written, keeps you coming back for more. I will read more from this author.

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