02176cam a2200421 i 4500 246994046 TxAuBib 20151202120000.0 150803s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015028338 9781501116971 1501116975 (OCoLC)915943374 TxAuBib rda eng spa Allende, Isabel. El amante Japon©♭s English. The Japanese lover : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. First Atria Books hardcover edition November 2015. New York : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 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" -- Verso title page. 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 are relocated to internment camps. Decades later Irina Bazili, a care worker, meets Alma's grandson, Seth, as he visits at a San Francisco nursing home. Intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, they eventually learning about Ichimei and a secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. 20151202. Older women Fiction. Love in old age Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Japanese Americans Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) Fiction. Love stories. Caistor, Nick,. Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948- TXCMR