Isabel Allende, El amante japonés [The Japanese Lover]

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After the crime novel

El juego de Ripper

[Ripper] (2014), which surprised her devout, long-time readers, Allende returned to a subject dealing with love (and the lack of it) with

El amante japonés

(2015)

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If in

El plan infinito

[The Infinite Plan] (1991) Allende had already explored an enduring love that persisted for decades well into old age, in

El amante japonés

love in old age is also the main focus. This also marked a departure after the emphasis on youth of

El cuaderno de Maya

[Maya’s Notebook] (2011) (whose teenage protagonist was deemed rather questionable in her cultivated way of expressing herself, resembling a woman Allende’s age rather than a teenager). That Allende published

El amante japonés

after her separation from her twenty-seven-year partner, crime author and…

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Citation: Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. "El amante japonés". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35908, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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