Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, Denmarks Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2012, to name just two of the ChileanAmerican writers 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 presentday San Francisco and Poland in the chaotic days just after World War II. Allende is in conversatio br, br,