Paula

Author: Isabel Allende

One of the most popular and acclaimed of Latin American authors presents an unforgettable memoir. An exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as Allende’s autobiography, Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart…..Read More

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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

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

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

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

The House of the Spirits

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They… Continue Reading Posted in: Genre Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

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

The Infinite Plan

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Zorro

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.‘Until that moment Diego had not been… Continue Reading Posted in: California, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Literary Fiction

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

Blue Shoe

The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life… Continue Reading Posted in: California San Francisco, Mothers & Children Fiction, Single Mothers, Women's Divorce Fiction

My Invented Country: A Memoir

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,… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Chilean, Women Authors

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The Japanese Lover

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