Library Reads

摘要

Isabel Allende's oeuvre ranges widely, from historicals set in 1800s Chile to chronicles of richly multiethnic contemporary California, from YA adventures to novels with a thriller's edge. But The Japanese Lover, her lushly detailed new work, may be her most expansive yet, embracing the Holocaust, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Ⅱ, homosexuality in less liberal times, and immigration today.