02789cam a2200421 i 4500 284335954 TxAuBib 20170207120000.0 150803s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015028338 9781501116971 $28.00 1501116975 $28.00 9781501116995 1501116991 TxAuBib rda eng spa Allende, Isabel. Amante Japon©♭s English. The Japanese lover : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2015. 321 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published as El Amante Japon©♭s in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial"--Title page verso. "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, 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 she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love 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 past, meets the older woman 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. "-- Provided by publisher. 20170207. Older women Fiction. Love in old age Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Japanese Americans Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction. Romance fiction. Caistor, Nick,. Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948-