The Japanese Lover

Name: The Japanese Lover
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SKU: 9788528620276
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Autor: Isabel Allende

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A secret passion that lasted nearly seventy years, told through Isabel Allende's moving and unparalleled writing. Spanning time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unseen impact of fate on our lives.

In 1939, the year of the Nazi occupation of Poland, eight-year-old Alma Mendel's parents decided to send her to San Francisco to live safely with her aunt and uncle, the Belasco family, in their opulent mansion. There, with the world at war, she met Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by everyone around them, a love affair began to blossom. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, the two were cruelly separated. Ichimei and thousands of other Japanese were declared potential enemies and forcibly transferred to concentration camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lives, Alma and Ichimei would meet again and again, never able to confess their love for each other to the world.

Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a nurse with unfinished business from her own past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at the charming and eccentric Lark House nursing home, where she works caring for the elderly. Irina and Seth strike up a friendship and, together, discover a series of gifts and mysterious letters sent to Alma, bringing to light a secret passion that has lasted nearly seventy years.

Written with due attention to historical detail and a deep understanding of its characters - the characteristics that made Isabel Allende so famous -, The Japanese Lover is a moving tribute to the constancy of the human heart in a world of incessant change.

ISBN	978-852-862-027-6
Tradutor	Joana Angélica D’Avila Melo
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	17 mm
Lançamento	29/09/2015
Páginas	294

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende é a autora de língua hispânica mais lida no mundo. Com livros publicados em mais de 35 idiomas, estreou na escrita em 1982, com A casa dos espíritos, título mítico da literatura latino-americana que obteve grande sucesso internacional. Em 2014, recebeu das mãos de Barack Obama a Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade, a mais importante distinção civil dos Estados Unidos. Quatro anos mais tarde, seria agraciada com o National Book Award pelo conjunto da obra.

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