El amante japonés - bookrastinating.com

345 pages

Spanish language

Published March 16, 2015 by Vintage Espa̋nol.

ISBN:: 978-1-101-97163-5
OCLC Number:: 911072321

"A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hap pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno."--P. [4] of cover.

9 editions

Kadomi@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Fluffy 20th century novel

4 stars

As I become older, I apparently care more for fluff, and this story has plenty. it's a family saga, of Alma Belasco who fled from Poland to San Francisco in 1939, and fell in love with the son of the Japanese gardener of the family. Wrapped around Alma's story we have the story of her caretaker Irina in Alma's later years at a nursing home.

I greatly enjoyed this but can see how it's not for everyone. It's a bit Pilcher-y.

As I become older, I apparently care more for fluff, and this story has plenty. it's a family saga, of Alma Belasco who fled from Poland to San Francisco in 1939, and fell in love with the son of the Japanese gardener of the family. Wrapped around Alma's story we have the story of her caretaker Irina in Alma's later years at a nursing home.

I greatly enjoyed this but can see how it's not for everyone. It's a bit Pilcher-y.

Subjects

Family secrets
Secretos
Older women
Cuentos de amor
World War, 1939-1945
Relaciones hombre-mujer
Love in old age
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945
Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Japanese Americans
Ficción
Japoneses-americanos
Ancianas

Places

San Francisco (Calif.)