The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED

The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED

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The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
  • The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED
The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED

The Japanese Lover * Isabel Allende * SIGNED

$8.99
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  • ENG- English
  • Hardcover
  • Used. Quite good; minor shelf wear.

Sent from Poland to San Francisco on the eve of World War II, a young girl forms a tender, lifelong bond with the son of her uncle's Japanese gardener - a secret romance separated by wartime internment camps and uncovered decades later by her grandson and a young care worker.

The Story. Written by internationally acclaimed Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende and translated into English by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson, this book weaves a poignant, multi-decade story of devotion, memory, and fate. In 1939, as Europe slides toward war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her from Poland to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle in their grand San Francisco home. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ichimei and his family are forcibly relocated to government internment camps, pulling the pair apart. Decades later at Lark House, a lively senior residence in Berkeley, elderly Alma befriends young care worker Irina Bazili. Together with Alma's grandson Seth, Irina begins piecing together the story behind mysterious letters and gardenia gifts that point to an enduring seventy-year love affair.

Perfect For. Book clubs and historical fiction readers who love sweeping, emotionally rich stories about enduring love and family history alongside Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, A Long Petal of the Sea, and Violeta, Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Lisa See's The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, or Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies.

Published 2015 by Atria Books.

Historical & Literary Fiction / 20th-Century Historical Romance / Multigenerational Family Sagas / World War II & Japanese-American Internment Fiction / San Francisco & Bay Area Fiction / Book Club Favorites

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Genres:

  • Fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Romance
  • World War II
  • Spanish Literature

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