by Isabel Allende · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518467305
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«Der japanische Liebhaber» is Isabel Allende's romantic novel, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (335 pages, in German).
Irina, a young woman with financial difficulties, starts working as an assistant to the millionaire Alma Belasco and finds in her an unexpected friendship. Soon she discovers that Alma harbours an emotional wound that only seems to ease with the arrival of love letters and anonymous flowers; intrigued, Irina follows the clues of these deliveries until she delves into Alma's past. The novel speaks of friendship, family secrets and the strength of a love that lasts a lifetime, in a California crossed by memory and magical realism.
Work originally published as «El amante japonés»; this German edition, translated by Svenja Becker, is part of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 4730 series.
Recommended for readers of romantic novels and family sagas with a historical background, as well as for those who enjoy Isabel Allende's narrative.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
