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American writer Julie Otsuka wins French foreign novel prize

US writer Julie Otsuka won France’s Femina foreign novel prize Monday for “The Buddha in the Attic”, a novel about the thousands of Japanese women sent to California in the early 1900s for arranged marriages. The novel follows Fumiko, Hanako and Miyoshi with their kimonos, sandals and long black hair,…