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	Kerri Sakamoto
		Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born writer of fiction as well as film and visual arts criticism.
		Sakamoto's insights into the fragile state of the human mind and the remembrance of the human heart are staggering...
		Sakamoto has a keen eye for recreating the unconnected thoughts of a girl coming of age.
	www.randomhouse.ca /newface/sakamoto.php (341 words)

	Eye Weekly - Familial fiction - 10.30.03
		Sakamoto admits that Miyo's journey is, in a way, her own.
		Sakamoto felt it was only natural that her novel should approach its Japanese subject matter from her own, diasporic point of view.
		Kerri Sakamoto is interviewed on stage by Jason Sherman at 1pm, Sat., Nov. 1 in the Studio Theatre, 235 Queen's Quay W. and reads at 4pm at the Premiere Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W., as part of the International Festival of Authors.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.30.03/arts/sakamoto.html (746 words)

	Cult Movies: The Electrical Field: A Novel - $13.00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Everything is fraught, everything a burden on her; scenes in which Sakamoto depicts Asaka grappling with the people in her life and the memories that haunt her acquire a numbing sameness.
		Kerri Sakamoto's brooding and dark novel, "The Electrical Field" is complicated, tantalizing, but ultimately frustrating and seomwhat manipulative.
		Sakamoto's comnpassionately and deftly explores the psychology of her protagonist, and only slowly does the "truth," of рrеsеnt homicides and past relocation, emerge.
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30333933333230343830.html (1201 words)

	Scarlett Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sakamoto's simple narrative style belies the theme of complex human suffering laced throughout her novels as connected to larger human drama.
		Chatting with 44 year old Kerri Sakamoto at the tony 'Diva at the Met' restaurant in downtown Vancouver one feels that she embodies a combination of cultures.
		Sakamoto has an innate sense of human injustice and feels fortunate that she has the opportunity to write about it.
	www.scarlett.ca /online/issue3/index.php?article=2 (566 words)

	Y-File
		Kerri Sakamoto and the students who came to hear her read fell mutually in love on this Thursday night.
		As Sakamoto noted, "George Bush is not divine and we don't love him." The disillusionment felt when Hirihito surrendered to the allies, no longer an idealized entity but merely human, is something all the characters must wrestle with.
		Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born writer of fiction with an international reputation for film and visual arts criticism.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=4029 (1064 words)

	Unavoidably Detained
		Kerri Sakamoto's first novel, ''The Electrical Field,'' considers the effect of the internment and its aftermath through its portrayal of the life of a middle-aged woman, Asako Saito, who settles in a bleak suburb of Toronto after leaving the camp where she and her mother, father and two brothers had been detained.
		The story, told by Miss Saito (as she is known to her neighbors), is set in the 1970's; she lives in an old farmhouse at the edge of a field filled with huge electrical towers, a depressing contrast to the lovely coastal town in British Columbia where she grew up.
		Sakamoto also conveys well the hatred and suspicion Miss Saito and her neighbors feel for the white world, their practice of hiding real feelings behind a cordial exterior and their submission to the unrelenting force of a sense of shame.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/99/04/04/reviews/990404.04hansont.html (707 words)

	One Hundred Million Hearts
		Kerri Sakamoto won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for her first novel, The Electrical Field, which dealt with the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II.
		In much the same way, Sakamoto left Canada to visit Japan for three months to do research and to visit the places described in her book.
		Sakamoto depicts the racism that manifested itself in various forms and places during the war.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/books/fiction/sakamoto (1063 words)

	Reading Group Guide: The Electrical Field
		Kerri Sakamoto was born and raised in Toronto where she currently resides.
		Kerri Sakamoto describes The Electrical Field as a "psychological mystery." In another sense, it is a traditional murder mystery: a woman and her lover are found killed, her husband and children are missing.
		Miss Saito is unable to keep her thoughts to herself; her memories always bleed into the present so that she catches herself participating in decades-old conversations.
	www.wwnorton.com /rgguides/electricalfieldrgg.htm (2374 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Electrical Field: Books: Kerri Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Everything is fraught, everything a burden on her; scenes in which Sakamoto depicts Asaka grappling with the people in her life and the memories that haunt her acquire a numbing sameness.
		Kerri Sakamoto's brooding and dark novel, "The Electrical Field" is complicated, tantalizing, but ultimately frustrating and seomwhat manipulative.
		Sakamoto's comnpassionately and deftly explores the psychology of her protagonist, and only slowly does the "truth," of present homicides and past relocation, emerge.
	www.amazon.ca /Electrical-Field-Kerri-Sakamoto/dp/0676971954 (1826 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ONE HUNDRED MILLION HEARTS by Kerri Sakamoto
		Kerri Sakamoto's second novel begins in first person: "During the war my father learned to shoot a rifle, lunge with his bayonet and march the perimeter of Okayama Second Middle School, knees high and arms swinging."
		And when Sakamoto leaves Miyo behind to recount the reminiscences of Setsuko and a war criminal named Koji "Buddy" Korada, the novel becomes muddled, mired in Japanese history and slowing its pace considerably.
		That this theme emerges from the shifting perspectives and anchorless narrative is testament to Sakamoto's understanding of both Japanese and Canadian cultures, and to her considerable talents as a writer.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0151010374.asp (628 words)

	portals \| amber dean
		All of the characters in Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field are impacted by the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
		The characters in Sakamoto's book have all succumbed to this pressure to remain silent about their experiences of internment, with the exception of Yano.
		Through the writing and publishing of their novels, both Eden Robinson and Kerri Sakamoto have put forth narratives that deal with national (public) and personal (private) traumas, to be read by an audience which in the act of reading bears witness to these events.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~clsa/portals/2004/dean.html (5270 words)

	The Canada Council for the Arts - 2000 Canada-Japan Literary Awards go to Kerri Sakamoto, Michel Régnier, Sakurako ...
		Winners in the category of published books are The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto and L'Oreille gauche by Michel Régnier; in the category of proposed work, Sakurako Tanaka was chosen for a narrative entitled Bringing Home a Dragon: Belated return of a Tsugaru Ainu and Ook Chung for a novel entitled Le Testament de Tokyo.
		Peer assessment committee comments: "Beautifully drawn yet profoundly disturbing, Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field probes the intricate scars left by the internment and dispersal of the Japanese-Canadian community with the delicate touch of a master surgeon, revealing by stages the wound beneath.
		Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto in 1959 and holds an M.A. in English from New York University.
	www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2000/sx127241388005937500.htm?colour=orange (1570 words)

	Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Kerri Sakamoto
		Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto in 1959.
		Sakamoto is a member of the Gendai Gallery that opened September 30, 2000 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, where she currently resides.
		When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of a small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths about each other.
	www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/sakamoto.html (405 words)

	Kerri Sakamoto 'One Hundred Million Hearts' Reading - Literature Program
		Kerri Sakamoto’s critically acclaimed new novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, is a story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war.
		Sakamoto, whose first novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, skillfully weaves larger questions of guilt and obligation into an intimate, suspenseful account of a young woman and a country both confronting themselves.
		Kerri Sakamoto reads from her second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, at Aion Tea House (2135 W. Division Street).
	faaim.org /2004aa/lit-sakamoto.php (265 words)

	Toronto Dollar Home
		The speakers on June 20 will be author Kerri Sakamoto, and Dr. Frank Cunningham, Professor of Philosophy and Principal of Innis College offering their reflections on Aiko’s latest work.
		Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto in 1959, the younger of two sisters.
		In 1998 her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards — the Governor General’s Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award — and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award.
	www.torontodollar.com /events/SupperClub/june20-05.php (408 words)

	Amazon.com: The Electrical Field: Books: Kerri Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Memory and murder are the main ingredients of Kerri Sakamoto's debut, The Electrical Field.
		The two are drawn into the mystery surrounding the murder of a neighbor and the disappearance of her husband and two children--one of whom is Sachi's boyfriend, Tam.
		Moving back and forth between past and present, Asako's memories of a long-dead brother, life in the World War II internment camps, and her own relationship with the murdered woman's husband become increasingly interwoven, culminating in several haunting revelations and a surprisingly tender ending.
	www.amazon.com /Electrical-Field-Kerri-Sakamoto/dp/0393046923 (1895 words)

	Lorenzo Reading Series 2003-2004 - UNBSJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kerri Sakamoto's stunning debut novel, The Electrical Field, published in 1998, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award.
		In her recently published second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts -- equally complex and harrowing -- Sakamoto returns to the imperfections of the human heart, our capacity to distort the truth and rearrange the past.
		Kerri Sakamoto's restrained narrative generates extraordinary tension, making this heartbreaking book a mesmerizing tour de force."
	www.unbsj.ca /lorenzo/readingseries_2003/5.html (263 words)

	The Bukowski Agency - One Hundred Million Hearts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Miyo, Sakamoto has created a marvelously complex, compelling character who is transformed...from a brave but helpless cripple to a woman who runs and dances and loves, not in innocence, but in full, terrifying knowledge.”
		Sakamoto makes her convincing and finally sympathetic, though never completely reliable.
		In October 1997 The New York Post described her first novel The Electrical Field as “the most sought-after book of the season.” Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born writer of fiction, film scripts and visual-arts criticism.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /OneHundredMillionHearts.htm (1132 words)

	Sakamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sakamoto is also a Japanese surname for several people (sorted alphabetically by given name):
		The Sakamoto family members, victims of the Sakamoto family murder perpetrated by members of the cult organization Aum Shinrikyo.
		Sakamoto Ryoma, military leader prior to the Meiji Resotration
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakamoto (162 words)

	News and Advice - StudyinCanada.com
		October 24, 2003 - Award-winning novelist Kerri Sakamoto will read from her new book One Hundred Million Hearts on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
		Sakamoto won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award.
		Sakamoto also earned an MA in English from New York University.
	www.studyincanada.com /english/news/pressrls.asp?ID=365&From= (162 words)

	The Asian Reporter - BOOK REVIEW
		Mysteries run beneath Kerri Sakamoto’s One Hundred Million Hearts like dark currents, but not the kind of mysteries found in whodunits.
		The central mystery is ultimately solved, but others linger after the narrative has drawn to a close.
		Kerri Sakamoto has written her second novel with a shifting point of view.
	www.asianreporter.com /reviews/2004/37-04-100millionhearts.htm (564 words)

	City Pages - Kerri Sakamoto: <I>One Hundred Million Hearts</I> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Soon after his death, a new story begins to unfold of her father's other life--the wife and daughter in Japan, where for a time he served as a pilot in the Special Attack Forces, a kamikaze who mysteriously survived.
		Miyo's desire to understand her father is at the center of One Hundred Million Hearts, the second novel by Canadian Kerri Sakamoto.
		Sakamoto and her characters understand that these women too were victims of war, and generations of them share the scars of their men.
	www.citypages.com /detail.asp?ArticleID=11846 (652 words)

	Books: Book Briefing (Seattle Weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sakamoto keeps her finger on the pulse, though, as each fragment cuts to the next on a precise emotional line.
		Occasionally scenes could have been carried a few steps further; there is the sense that Sakamoto is protecting her characters.
		Kerri Sakamoto reads at the Elliott Bay Book Co. 2/1 at 7:30.
	www.seattleweekly.com /arts/9904/books-brief.php (826 words)

	Kerri Kerri Sakamoto. Rubinsky, Holley . Sakamoto, Kerri . Taylor, Timothy Kerri Sakamoto New Face Of Fict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kerri slightly anxious - and so she should be!!
		First gag-gift Kerri had mild trouble eating which was no surprise since there weren't any.
		Kerri Dunn, 39 (dob 10-9-64), is scheduled to surrender May 19 for arraignment in Pomona Superior Court, Dept. New Horizons Web Site.
	www.99hosted.com /new-name57321.html (318 words)

	Kerri Sakamoto: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		October 24, 2003 - Award-winning novelist Kerri Sakamoto will read from her new book One Hundred Million Hearts on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
		She was also nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Sakamoto_Kerri_858787806.htm (237 words)

	Sakamoto Kerri Interview
		As we left, it was getting darker, there was some light, but the calm before the storm had ended.
		gathered my goods, Kerri and I yakked about who we knew, she checked out the Gallery.
		her head- both of which were eloquently answered by Sakamoto.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /yellospace/sakamoto2.html (655 words)

	Fifth Lorenzo Reading event features author Kerri Sakamoto -- October 30, 2003 - News@UNB
		Kerri Sakamoto will read at UNB Saint John on Monday, Nov. 3
		The fifth event in the popular Lorenzo Reading Series at the University of New Brunswick Saint John will feature Kerri Sakamoto reading from her novel, "One Hundred Million Hearts," on Monday, Nov. 3 at 7 pm in the Faculty-Staff Loungr, Ward Chipman Library Building, UNB Saint John.
		Kerri Sakamoto is also author of the remarkable debut novel, "The Electrical Field," which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award.
	www.unb.ca /news/view.cgi?id=384 (302 words)

	Japan Foundation Toronto
		To commemorate its 10th anniversary, writers James Quandt, Katherine Govier, and Kerri Sakamoto will talk about their research and read from their latest work.
		The latest novel, Three Views of Crystal Water, set in prewar Vancouver and Japan, is about the young Canadian descendent of a family of pearl merchants, who comes of age in an ama fishing village.
		Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-based writer of novels, screenplays and essays on visual art.
	www.jftor.org /whatson/archive05.php (1855 words)

	Events: Asian American Studies Program, WCAS, Northwestern University
		Kerri Sakamoto is the author of The Electrical Field, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award, and was nominated for several others, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.
		The Toronto Stars calls Sakamoto as "a major new force in the landscape of Canadian fiction".
		Kerri Sakamoto skillfully weaves larger questions of guilt and obligation into an intimate, suspenseful account of a young woman and a country both confronting themselves.
	www.cas.northwestern.edu:8002 /events/index.html (293 words)

	Books - Fiction
		Several novels do not present an accurate history of Japan's kamikaze operations and often do not portray the pilots in a realistic manner.
		However, a couple of these novels (The Seventh Stone by Nancy Freedman, One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto) provide many insights into how World War II and the actions of the kamikaze pilots affected their loved ones left behind.
		The novels also deal with the feelings of kamikaze pilots who survived the war even though many comrades died in suicide attacks.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/books/fiction/index.htm (582 words)

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