Carmen Durand Books

In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the spiritual worlds intertwine."

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan - his philosophy of life. The Reeveses settle in a Mexican barrio outside Los Angeles, awaiting Charles death. His son, Greg, is left to explore the truth of the "Plan". By the author of "Eva Luna" and "Of Love and Shadows".

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.

Reimp. de la 1ª ed., 1977. Premio Planeta 1977

Eva Luna, héroïne du précédent roman d'Isabel Allende, n'avait pas son pareil pour conter des histoires aussi extraordinaires que véridiques, tirées de la chronique locale de son village, Agua Santa.On trouvera ici un nouvel échantillon du talent de la Schéhérazade latino-américaine. Vingt-trois récits burlesques ou sombres, de nostalgie ou de colère, d'ironie ou de révolte. Vingt-trois contes d'une prodigieuse diversité de situations, où la romancière de La Maison aux esprits révèle les mille et une facettes de son inspiration.