Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power'El Pais
Isabel Allende was born in 1942 Lima, Peru. She grew up in Chile and now lives in California. She is the author of novels The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Infinite Plan, Paula, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, My Invented Country, Zorro, Ines of My Soul The Sum of Our Days and The Island Beneath the Sea. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende was a journalist for many years. She began to write fiction in 1981. The result was the worldwide best-seller The House of the Spirits, which was followed by the equally successful Of Love and Shadows and The Stories of Eva Luna (Penguin 1991). Her first work of non-fiction, Paula, was published in 1995 and is a harrowing chronicle of the death of her daughter. Isabel Allende lives in California.
Remarkable...a big book that can comprehend the history of a
nation, and so many lives, with love * The Times *
An exotic vision and a brilliant, impassioned epic * Vogue *
Mesmerizing... A novel of force and charm * Washington Post *
This is a novel like the novels no one seems to write anymore:
thick with plot and bristling with characters who play out their
lives over three generations of conflict and reconciliation. A
novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative
of inescapable power * El Pais, Madrid *
Announcing a truly great read: a novel thick and thrilling, full of
fantasy, terror and wit, elaborately crafted yet serious and
accurate in its historical and social observations * Die Welt,
Berlin *
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