A review by stormofpages
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

3.0

In it, Alma narrates her life from evacuating to the United States early during World War II, growing up with the wealthy Belasco family, and her love for Ichimei Fukuda. It is a lovely, atmospheric story, and through Ichimei’s eyes gives us a view into the life of an American of Japanese origin in the US during WWII, with the internment camps, seizure of possession and general hardship. I hadn’t ever read or watched any account of that experience before, and it was great to see it addressed.