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The last post here on Books on the Manu was January 5th! Almost 5 months ago.
I have read a lot of books since then, but not any book by a reader from a country not yet visited. Not until this morning that is. Then I finished Isabel Allende´s The Japanese Lover from 2016, and Chile can be added to my list.
The Japanese Lover, a life long love story, between a Jewish girl/woman and a Japanese boy/man. But also so much more. At times I feel there are too many lose ends in the book and can´t quite figure out what Allende is aiming for. In the end she knot most of the ends together to a beautiful piece of art though. In the style she masters perfectly.
The tale is set in California, San Francisco, and Chile is not even mentioned. But we are taken to quite a few other places, and times in hostory. Anti semitism, forbidden love, sexual abuse, HIV-Aids to mention a few. The love line though is the tale of Jewish Alma, who was sent from Warsawa to her Californian family, as a little girl before the war, and Irina, a girl from Moldova, who was sent from her garndparents back in Moldova, to her mother and her husband in The US. Two strong women who meet when the first is old, the second still young.
An intriguing tale.