by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401015724
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«El amante japonés» is the historical and romantic fiction novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (352 pages, in Spanish).
Alma Belasco, now elderly at the Lark House residence, recalls her youth in San Francisco, where she arrived from Poland fleeing World War II. Among the gardens of her aunt and uncle's house she meets Ichimei, the son of the Japanese gardener, and lives with him a love story marked by secrecy, separation, and the passage of time.
The novel belongs to the Éxitos collection. The first edition, in hardcover with dust jacket, was published on May 28, 2015.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in love stories with a wartime backdrop.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
