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The Japanese lover

Allende, Isabel2017
Large Print
1939: As the world goes to war, Alma Belasco's Polish parents send her to live in safety with relatives in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. But following Pearl Harbor, Ichimei and his family are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Although Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide... Decades later, care worker Irina Bazili meets Alma and her grandson, Seth, at 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, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.
Main title:
The Japanese lover / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2017.
Collation:
368 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
97814448342221444834223
Language:
English
BRN:
315081
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