My Invented Country: A Memoir
Author: Isabel Allende
The life story of Isabel Allende – one of the world’s favourite writers. It is based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, which provides both a political and geographical framework of Chile…..Read More
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Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende's sensuous novel about the mystery of memory In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her… Continue Reading Posted in: California San Francisco, Chile, Manners And Customs
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a… Continue Reading Posted in: Dominican Americans, Immigrants, United States
The Sum of Our Days
Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved… Continue Reading Posted in: California, Chileans
The Infinite Plan
Author: Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read more.....Read More Amazon goodreads Review this Book See All… Continue Reading Posted in: Asian American Literature (Kindle Store), Chile, Hispanic American Literature & Fiction, Spanish Fiction
Island Beneath the Sea
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical Caribbean & Latin American Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical French Fiction, History, Racially Mixed Women
When I Was Puerto Rican
Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an echanted yet harsh life chronicle, as a young girl leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a… Continue Reading Posted in: BiografiìA, Electronic Books, Puerto Ricans New York (State) New York Biography
Of Love and Shadows
Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for… Continue Reading Posted in: Authors, Chilean, Historical Literary Fiction, Literary Sagas, Politicians, Spanish Fiction
Eva Luna
En Eva Luna , su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación. La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nostálgico álter… Continue Reading Posted in: Chile, Household Employees, Storytellers
Yo!
About Yo! Obsessed by human stories, Latina novelist Yolanda Garcia has managed to put herself at the center of many lives. Thrice married, she's also managed to remain childless while… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Fiction, Libros en español, Women Authors
Daughter of Fortune
Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part,… Continue Reading Posted in: Chile, Frontier And Pioneer Life Fiction, History
In the Name of Salome
The Barnes & Noble Review - La Musa de la Patria In recent years, novelists Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here), Karla Kuban (Marchlands) and Susannah Moore (My Old Sweetheart), among… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographical Fiction, Dominical Americans, Dominican Republic
Inés of My Soul
Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biographical Fiction, Spaniards
The House of the Spirits
Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's magnificent family saga is populated by a memorable, often eccentric, cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history,… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, Spanish American Fiction, Translations
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