The Japanese lover
By: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson
Contributors: Caistor, Nick; Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948-
Edition: Large print edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781444834222
Subjects: Older women; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: 1939: As the world goes to war, Alma Belasco's Polish parents send her to live in safety with relatives in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. But following Pearl Harbor, Ichimei and his family are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Although Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide... Decades later, care worker Irina Bazili meets Alma and her grandson, Seth, at Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.
Notes: Adult.