02884cim a2200457 i 4500 334627613 TxAuBib 20171206120000.0 d 150521s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781442391239 set $29.99 1442391235 set $29.99 (OCoLC)915043766 TxAuBib rda eng spa Allende, Isabel. The Japanese lover [Audio] : a novel. ©2015. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015. 322 pages ; 21 cm. 8 audio discs (approximately 9 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Originally published as El Amante Japonés in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. Read by Joanna Gleason. 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. 20171206. World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Poland Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction. Interracial dating Fiction. Older women Fiction. Love in old age Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. San Francisco, CA Fiction. Romance. Historical fiction. Caistor, Nick, Translator. Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948-, Translator.