El amante japonés (2000)
El amante japonés is a 2000 san francisco (calif.), fiction book written by Isabel Allende.
Isabel Allende spans seventy years and two continents in this love story. At a San Francisco nursing home in 2010, elderly Alma Belasco receives letters and gifts that hint at a secret kept a lifetime. The novel reaches back to 1939, when a young Alma, sent from Nazi-threatened Poland to relatives in California, meets Ichimei Fukuda, the gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Their bond forms quietly, and then the war and the internment of Japanese Americans force them apart. Allende writes with her familiar warmth about longing, exile, prejudice, and the choices that quietly shape a whole life.
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What is El amante japonés about?
Isabel Allende spans seventy years and two continents in this love story. At a San Francisco nursing home in 2010, elderly Alma Belasco receives letters and gifts that hint at a secret kept a lifetime. The novel reaches back to 1939, when a young Alma, sent from Nazi-threatened Poland to relatives in California, meets Ichimei Fukuda, the gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Their bond forms quietly, and then the war and the internment of Japanese Americans force them apart. Allende writes with her familiar warmth about longing, exile, prejudice, and the choices that quietly shape a whole life.
When was El amante japonés published?
El amante japonés was published in 2000.
Who made El amante japonés?
El amante japonés was written by Isabel Allende.
A few thoughts on El amante japonés
Snow Falling on Cedars, both David Guterson's novel and the 1999 film, tells a kindred story of love strained across the internment of Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest. For the same reach across decades and the ache of a love kept private, the film The English Patient moves with a similar sweep of war, memory, and longing.