TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allende,Isabel
AU  - Caistor,Nick
AU  - Hopkinson,Amanda
TI  - The Japanese lover
SN  - 9781471152177 (hardback)
U1  - 863.64 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Older women
KW  - Love in old age
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - San Francisco (Calif.)
KW  - Love stories
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - "Originally published as El Amante Japonés in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial" -- Verso title page
N2  - From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. 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
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