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The Japanese lover

Isabel Allende

  • 345 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

The Japanese Lover (Spanish: El amante japonés) is the eighteenth book by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It was published in 2015 and recounts a wartime love story between a Polish woman and a Japanese American in the aftermath of the Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939. The book is set in World War II. Just like Allende's other books, it tells a story which spans decades.

It follows the magical realism and historical romance/fiction like her previous books. The Japanese Lover also coincided with Allende receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President, Barack Obama.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: a love story and historical fiction.

  • Japanese Americans
  • Romance, historical
  • Romance
  • Historical fiction
  • Relationships
  • San francisco
  • World War II
  • Family secrets

2 About Isabel Allende

Born 1942

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Spanish: ; born 2 August 1942) 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 (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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