El Amante Japonés / The Japanese Lover: Una Novela -- Isabel Allende

<b>La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japon s Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a trav s de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el San Francisco de nuestros d as.<br></b><br>&laquo;A los veintid s a os, sospechando que ten an el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras m s intentaban agotarlo, m s imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun as quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da ox geno. <p/><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION <p/>From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II.</b> <p/>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