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| Original Title: | El amante japonés |
| ISBN: | 1501116975 (ISBN13: 9781501116971) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Irina Bazili, Alma Belasco, Ichimei Fukuda, Seth |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) |
Isabel Allende
Hardcover | Pages: 322 pages Rating: 3.82 | 56609 Users | 6341 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Japanese Lover |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 322 pages |
| Published | : | November 3rd 2015 by Atria Books (first published May 2015) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Audiobook |
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In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, 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, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family, like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that 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 elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric 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, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.
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Massively disappointing, especially for all the hype.The reader is kept at an arm's length, so that, although many personal secrets and tragedies are continuously presented, there is no language that creates an emotional connection between reader and character.Also written like the author researched historical and contemporary cultural touchstones, then used them like name-dropping. Didn't feel like the narrator had any personal interest in these events beyond an anthropological one.Seth's voiceOmg, 'The Japanese Lover' is such an emotionally flat read! The title is the only grouping of words with a hint of a living heartbeat for what seemed to me like thousands of pages. However, unlike 'Ripper', which Isabel Allende also wrote, this book is coherent.Reader, if gelded literary reads are the kind of books which you recommend to your book club because it helped you pass the hours between arranging the flowers into a delicate expression of beauty and checking the work of the servants, or
Oh, I haven't so agonized over a review in such a long time. Here's the thing. There is a part of me that wondered, "If this wasn't Isabel Allende, would this book ever have been published?" It's pages and pages and pages of exposition. A held-at-arm's-distance recitation of characters' histories, loves, lives, and losses, interspersed with patinated scenes of an assisted living center for geriatric WASP hippies in the woods a comfortable, but convenient, distance from San Francisco. There's
From reading the book blurb, I was wary that this novel would be emotionally overwrought. : Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives..I found it to be one of those big-hearted tales that pluck your heartstrings while you root for the main characters to find the love of others that they deserve. It wasnt quite sappy, but came close. We watch a friendship
A quiet, contemplative book... A look at the life of Alma Mendel, sent as a child to live with her aunt and uncle in San Francisco. Her Jewish parents are never able to find their way to her from their native Poland, victims of Nazi atrocities. Isaac and Lillian Blasco, her relatives, whose wealth increases with no diminishing of their innate kindness..., their grandson, Nathaniel, beloved and steady, loyal....Ichimei Fukuda, gardener's son, Japanese internee, dreamer. Seth, Alma's grandson, a
I really liked this book. It's about friendship, love, and aging with many touching relationships.(I also learned about how the Japenese Americans were sent away to interment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I had never known this happened).
3☆Why do you ask, Aunt Lillian?Because...marriage without passion is like food without salt.Such was the issue for me with this one. It was like a well prepared meal without salt. Or perhaps, not the seasoning I prefer. I kept putting my fork down after each bite to sip my wine only to experience a disconnect. I was hoping for a nice dessert at the end that made it worthwhile. Instead I had more wine. A Dianthus Rosé from Tablas Creek. That put a smile on my face.
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