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Paula

by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden
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Overview

When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.

Synopsis

Es una memoria encarnada que atrapa al lector como una novela de suspenso. Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos. En Paula, Allende escribe una poderosa autobiografía cuya aceptacíon de los mundos mágico y espiritual recuerdan al lector su primer libro La casa de los espíritus.

Washington Post Book World

Fascinante...en una impecable y rica prosa comparte con nosotros sus sentimientos má íntimos.

About the Author, Isabel Allende

Aristocratic Chile is vividly evoked in Isabel Allende s lyrical novels, in which a family s past and future is linked inextricably with that of its country s. A writer whose dreamy, imagistic books transport the reader to another time and place, Allende is considered by many to be the heir to Gabriel García Márquez s lavish magic realism.

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Editorials

Washington Post Book World

Fascinante...en una impecable y rica prosa comparte con nosotros sus sentimientos má íntimos.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Hermosa y comovedora....Memoria, autobiografíca, epicedium, tal vez algo de ficción; todo está allí y todo estámaravilloso.

Book Details

Published
April 1, 2008
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780061564901

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