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From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, 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, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family—like thousands of other Japanese Americans—are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled pas

Who reads The Japanese Lover : A Novel?

Author

Isabel Allende

Publisher

Atria Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781471152207

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.2 / 5 (18,017 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14