ISBN |
9781471152177 (hbk.) |
1471152170 (hbk.) |
Name |
Allende, Isabel author. |
Uniform title |
Amante Japonés. English |
Title |
The Japanese lover / Isabel Allende ; translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. |
Published |
London Scribner, 2015. |
Description |
321 pages ; 25 cm. |
Notes |
"Originally published as El Amante Japonés in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial" -- Verso title page. |
Translated from the Spanish. |
Summary |
In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. |
Subjects |
Older women -- Fiction |
Love in old age -- Fiction |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction |
Japanese Americans -- Fiction |
Family secrets -- Fiction |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction |
Other Names |
Caistor, Nick translator. |
Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948- translator. |
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