[1] It was published in 2015 and recounts a wartime love story between a Polish woman and a Japanese American in the aftermath of the Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939.

The Japanese Lover also coincided with Allende receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President, Barack Obama.

In 2015, octogenarian Alma Belasco is moving in the Lark House, a retirement home for quirky individuals in San Francisco.

[6] In 1939, Germany was invading Poland, and eight-year-old Alma was sent San Francisco to her wealthy uncle and aunt to escape the Holocaust.

As written by Lucy Ferris of the New York Times, the thin plot and weakly motivated characters, fail to lift this novel very high.