Isabel Allende, “The Japanese Lover“

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2012, to name just two of the Chilean-American writer’s 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 present-day San Francisco and Poland in the chaotic days just after World War II. Allende is in conversatio