El Honor del Silencio vs Obasan: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Japanese, Concentration Camps, Historical Fiction, Fiction
El Honor del Silencio
“MASAO TAKASHIMAYA'S family had searched for five years for a suitable bride for him, ever since his twenty-first birthday.”
The drama of a young Japanese woman, Hiroko, who comes to the U.S. to attend college and falls in love with a white American, Peter. Their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, she to a concentration…
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Obasan
“The coulee is so still right now that if a match were to be lit, the flame would not waver.”
224 pages; 21 cm
The verdict
- Readers rate El Honor del Silencio highest: El Honor del Silencio 4.1 · Obasan 3.8.
- El Honor del Silencio has the widest readership — 8800 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| El Honor del Silencio | Obasan | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (8800) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 3.8 (16) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 3.5 (7) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (9) |
Reception
| El Honor del Silencio | Obasan | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8800 | 16 |
| Editions | 53 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 3923 | — |
| Reading it now | 1997 | — |
| Written reviews | 409 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 192 |
| Pages | 319 | 250 |