by Isabel Allende · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466365093
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«El amante japonés» is the romantic novel by Isabel Allende, published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in paperback (345 pages, in Spanish).
In 1939, young Alma Belasco arrives in San Francisco to take refuge from the war and meets Ichimei Fukuda, son of the family's Japanese gardener; between them a love arises that they must hide when the Fukudas are sent to an internment camp. Years later, at Lark House residence, a social worker and Alma's grandson discover the letters and gifts that preserve the memory of that secret passion.
2019 edition from the Best Seller collection; the novel was originally published in 2015.
Recommended for ages 15 and up, for readers of romantic fiction and contemporary fiction with a historical backdrop.
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.
