Isabel Allende, "The Japanese Lover"

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2012, to name just two of the Chilean-American writer’s many honors, Allende has dazzled readers worldwide with her powerful storytelling and distinctive hybrid of magical realism and historical fiction. In her 17th work of fiction, Allende tells a compelling story of love and betrayal set in both present-day San Francisco and Poland in the chaotic days just after World War II.
Allende is in conversation with Marie Arana.
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[@aquilaot]

I love Isabel's passion and how well she understands herself and the world around her.

[@josegemar5915]

Isabel soy un hombre de 54 años feminista, tengo 3 hermanas, Me quedé enamorado p tu forma de escribir, he recomendado tus libros desde "La casas de los espiritus", soy profesor de español.......desde que empecé a leerte siento que eres mi amiga

[@KOMET2006]

I was in attendance at this book reading/interview, which was a joy to experience. (To Francis Osuna, Isabel Allende's book is a novel centered around the relationship between a Japanese-American man (Nisei) and a Polish Jewish woman who arrived in the U.S. from Europe just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The woman is living with her grandparents in San Francisco, where she meets the young gentleman Ichimei Fukuda. Frankly, it makes no difference if the novelist doesn't have a direct connection to Japan. What matters is if the novelist can educate and inform him/herself sufficiently about Japanese life and culture to offer the reader a credible and compelling novel highlighting a character or locale that is Japanese or tied in with Japanese life and culture.)

[@jburckhardt]

I bet, Isabel has such a good energy and is so intriguing to hear what she is going to say next, awesome woman...love love love

[@leefroml.a.8679]

I'm reading this book right now and I've been rather boring. She seems to have all the right ingredients, but there's something missing.

[@ericbenitez9542]

I love Isabel Allende's sense a human. Blessings to you. Never change. / Me encanta el sentido del humor de Isabel Allende. Bendiciones a usted. Nunca cambie.

[@jburckhardt]

divina ,hermosa, q vigor de esa mjer y valentia en su vida, un gran ejemplo, me ecanta como vive su vida con tanta pasion en todo aspecto de amor y que es superhonesta! ella dice las cosas le guste a quien le guste :P ,me encanta

[@anomimoanonimus3353]

Isabel Allende es un fraude, desde todo punto de vista, sus libros estas llenos de frases echas y de plagios, no entiendo como Garcia Marquez no la demandó. Es imperdonable lo que dijo a propósito de la muerte de Roberto Bolaño: " que bueno que se haya muerto" de esta forma se refirió a su muerte, y la verdad es bueno para ella, porque Bolaño con su sola presencia la dejaba en ridículo, y la destruía desde el punto de vista intelectual, moral y ético. El artista latinoamericano mas importante es este minutos es Bolaño no ella, y tomando en cuanta que Bolaño es un artista de culto y Allende es un producto comercial.

[@emilnn]

Such a great interview

[@LIMALE25]

i love Nathaniel as well.

[@Sam-gd1jc]

i love this woman ❤️✨

[@douglasdaher6146]

Could somebody please give me the name of the extraordinary interviewer ?

[@mariafernanda-bi8ke]

Sera que ha Cultura e se mudam mentalidades num Pais onde nem um copo esta junto a garrafa de agua!

[@gsabillon23]

Wow!!!!! La señora habla por una hora entera y ese es tu unico comentario? Increible!!!!