Review — ‘Nos Llamaron Enemigo’- The Spanish Edition of George Takei’s Outstanding Story

Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition) by George Takei (Author), Justin Eisinger (Author), Steven Scott (Author), Harmony Becker (Artist)

I’m so glad that I got a chance to review this graphic novel. It had been on my radar since Jonathan H. Liu talked about it, it was in the New York Time’s best seller list, and it has just won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature.

George Takei was imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp when he was 4 years old. This novel gives his personal perspective of the life of a young boy during World War II.

In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. George Takei spent his childhood there, behind barbed wire.

They did so because they thought that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, each Japanese-American countenance harbored a potential enemy. The exact phrase used was, that because they couldn’t fathom what they were…