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Authors: Isabel Allende
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Born in Peru and raised in Chile,
ISABEL ALLENDE
is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including
The House of the Spirits
,
Daughter of Fortune
,
Paula
, and
My Invented Country.
Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and have sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide. She lives in California. Visit her at
isabelallende.com
.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Isabel Allende
English translation copyright © by Isabel Allende
Originally published as
El Amante Japon
é
s
in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
English language translation by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson
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Interior design by Paul Dippolito
Jacket design by Evan Gaffney
Jacket photographs: Woman © Mary Evans / Classic Stock / H. Armstrong Roberts; Golden Gate from Baker Beach © Greg Probst / Corbis
Author photograph © Lori Barra
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allende, Isabel.
[El amante Japonés. English]
The Japanese lover : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. â First edition.
ââpages cm
“Originally published as El Amante Japonés in 2015 in Spain by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial” â Verso title page.
1. Older womenâFiction. 2. Love in old ageâFiction. 3. World War, 1939â1945âFiction. 4. Japanese AmericansâFiction. 5. Family secretsâFiction. 6. San Francisco (Calif.)âFiction. I. Caistor, Nick, translator. II. Hopkinson, Amanda, date, translator. III. Title.
PQ8098.1.L54A67513 2015
863'.64âdc23
2015028338
ISBN 978-1-5011-1697-1
ISBN 978-1-5011-1700-8 (ebook)