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Kathleen Kelley asked this question about The Japanese Lover:
Has anyone who has read this book also read Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet? This sounds like a similar story...just wondering if it is?
Don Fitzsimons I've read both. The historical circumstance of the internment of Japanese in the US during WW II is the same vehicle for heroic struggle. I preferred …moreI've read both. The historical circumstance of the internment of Japanese in the US during WW II is the same vehicle for heroic struggle. I preferred Ford's melodramatic account. His style might be awkwardly sentimental at times, but it also fleshed out character actions and settings. I was moved regardless of my awareness of the obvious emotional manipulation. Allende's style, in comparison, is a Bowdlerized paperback romance, delivered with competent dryness.

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