L'amant Japonais - Isabel Allande

Alma Belasco, 80 years old, decides to leave the vast family home of Sea Cliff where she grew up to settle in Lark House, an elderly residence near San Francisco. In this unusual institution where the most fantastic people meet, Alma makes friends with Irina, a young Moldavian nurse who hides behind her gentleness and her unfailing attention a deep wound and a past that continues to haunt her. Seth Belasco, Alma's grandson, falls in love with her at first glance and, on the pretext of writing a family story, he visits her grandmother more and more often, who lends herself to the game of memories. Alma begins to tell the story of her life: her flight from Poland in the 1930s, her settlement with her uncle and her aunt in Sea Cliff, the deep friendship that binds her to her cousin Nathaniel and especially her love affair with lchimei, the son of the gardener and the playmate of her childhood. Paperback. 318 pages. (In french) 24 cm x 15,5 cm x 2,5 cm