About
the Author
Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born writer of fiction as well as film and visual arts criticism.
The Electrical Field was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 1998.
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Books by
this author
One Hundred Million Hearts (Vintage Canada, June 2004)
One Hundred Million Hearts (Knopf Canada, 2003)
The Electrical Field (Vintage Canada, 1998)
The Electrical Field (Knopf Canada, 1997)
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Literary
Awards
- Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada & Caribbean Region)
- Shortlisted for the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book Overall
- Shortlisted for the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel
- Shortlisted for the 1999 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Shortlisted for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction
- Shortlisted for the 1998 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Asian writing of significance
- Winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award worth $5,000
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Praise for The Electrical Field
"Spooky, atmospheric, unveiling its secrets with uncanny assurance, Kerri Sakamoto's remarkable debut becomes impossible to put down. Not since Ishiguro's early novels has the Japanese experience of the New World been captured so subtly, and with such eerie and elliptical intimacy."
-Pico Iyer
"Sakamoto has written a stunningly complex and beautifully rendered first novel. It is complex in its depth of character and shockingly simple in the way humans can distort and rearrange the truth to avoid confrontation with their past. ... Sakamoto's insights into the fragile state of the human mind and the remembrance of the human heart are staggering… The Electrical Field is richly drawn and told with emotional truth."
-The Edmonton Journal
"Vibrant… beautifully expressed. Sakamoto has a keen eye for recreating the unconnected thoughts of a girl coming of age. (She) crosses the great divide, that place where writers with multi-ethnic identities struggle with how those identities should inform their writing."
-Literary Review of Canada (November 98)
"Sakamoto's novel is of the calibre to join such stellar performances as Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces ... The Electrical Field is, itself, full of electricity. Its magnetic tension lies both in its curious, harrowing story and in the power of Sakamoto's prose. It is an unusual, elegant novel, full of bitterness and regret, yet with some hope of renewal at its core…"
-The London Free Press
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