El amante japonés/ The Japanese Lover (Spanish Edition)

The author is such a great writer!

Me gusto mucho siempre nos sorprende

Isabel Allende is a really great writer. She takes us through the intertwined lives of a group of people with majestic detail. She goes from the present to the past and back showing different moments of their lives, painting a wonderful picture that astonishes us at every passage of the story.

Enjoyable, very well written as every other book from Allende

Genial

Este es el último libro de Isabel Allende y me ha dejado con un buen sabor de boca general, no tanto porque sea muy bueno, sino porque me parece que la autora vuelve al estilo que le conocíamos bien y que gustaba tanto hasta antes de escribir los tres libros para adolescentes que creo hizo pensando en sus sobrinos. La trama está bien, a secas, y para mi gusto le faltó un poco de "chispa". El desarrollo de la novela me gustó y creo que la Sra. Allende demuestra por qué es una de las grandes escritoras latinoamericanas. Me parece que con este libro la autora se sacudió al fin el estilo para adolescentes (ni encantador para niños ni emocionante o profundo para adultos) con que escribió todavía su libro anterior, de Ripley. Ojalá continúe con su estilo de siempre y nos haga esperar con impaciencia su siguiente libro, como antes. Mientras tanto, aunque este libro no sea de lo mejor que he leído de ella, vale la pena leerlo.

A story of love and loss with a side theme surrounding WWII. It had some interesting descriptions of the Japanese internment, and how devastating it was to those affected. Allende does a wonder job developing these characters and evoking a sense of empathy within the reader.

Isabel Allende siempre es muy buena . Recomendado

Livro em ótimo estado de conservação. Preço muito em conta pra qualidade da leitura!

Isabel Allende ha logrado crear una obra maestra con El amante japonés. Sus personajes y sus historias te transportan a otra época y otro lugar, donde el amor florece a pesar de todas las adversidades. Esta novela va mucho más allá de ser simplemente una historia de amor. También nos habla de cuestiones más profundas y universales, como la identidad, el abandono y la importancia de las relaciones humanas en nuestras vidas. Y todo esto lo hace con una prosa cuidada y poética, que te hace sentir que estás leyendo algo realmente especial.Si estás buscando una novela que te haga sentir todas las emociones posibles, que te haga reflexionar sobre la vida y el amor, y que esté escrita con una sensibilidad única, entonces EL amante japonés es definitivamente una obra que no puedes dejar de leer. Una experiencia literaria que te dejará un profundo impacto y que mantendrá viva su memoria mucho después de haber terminado de leerla.

Genial todo bien

Isabel Allende es una gran escritora que nunca decepciona. Un libro que toca muchas partes de tu alma. Simplemente impresionante.

What strikes me with most of Isabel Allende’s novels, above all with the best of them – and 'The Japanese Lover' is right up there with the best – is their strong story lines and their intensely appealing, vividly drawn and highly believable characters.In 'The Japanese Lover' we have a young woman it’s easy to empathise with, Irina, a Moldovan immigrant to the United States. She has a difficult past but an optimistic present, made all the more glowing by her engaging personality and readiness to work hard for others.In California, where she now lives, Irina meets Alma, an escapee from the Holocaust, who has been there a lot longer – since the 1930s. She’s a woman much guided by conventions but whose life has embraced a massively unconventional series of events.Then there’s Ichimei, the son of Japanese immigrants, who has inherited his father’s love of plants and his talent as a gardener, but also has a strange and never fully exploited skill as an artist, together with a wonderfully cool, self-controlled temperament alongside a great capacity for passion within.These three lives, and those of a whole cast of supporting characters, often with intriguing stories of their own, always with personalities that grab our attention, interweave and enrich each other to make the powerful story of the novel. A story full of surprises, which was one of the novel's aspects that I most enjoyed.It turns out that the lover of the Japanese lover isn’t who I thought it was going to be.Another surprise was that, having rather moved away from the magic realism of her early novels – 'The House of the Spirits' is quite explicit in its use of supernatural elements – in 'The Japanese Lover', Allende introduces just a dash of it in the last few pages, in a way that doesn’t feel artificial and which heightens the appeal of an ending that was already heading towards a moving climax.There are plenty of other surprises too. In a book that covers decades of time, we get several back stories for the main characters, and more than one with shocking turning points. And, as always with Allende, there are political themes too. In this case, unlike in many of her other novels, they aren’t from her native Chile.Instead, we get Jews fleeing – or failing to flee – the Holocaust in Poland.We get Japanese Americans interned in the US in what Allende, not unjustifiably, calls concentration camps rather than detention centres. That was an action which remains the blackest mark on an administration that generally attempted to be reasonably liberal, that of Franklin Roosevelt. The detention of legally resident Japanese, to say nothing of American citizens, often American-born, of Japanese descent, was always a move of highly doubtful constitutionality. To say nothing of its being a deeply unethical one.And, finally, there’s the twist to Irina’s story, whose difficult past turned out to have been a lot tougher than I’d guessed at first.As always, then, a huge panoply of characters, stories, history and charm. The Japanese Lover is Allende once more at her best. A novel to enjoy and not to miss.