Isabel Allende Book order (chronological)

Een vrouw op zoek naar waarheid, liefde en haar wortels. In 1866 wordt Emilia del Valle geboren in San Francisco als dochter van een Ierse non en een Chileense aristocraat. Ze groeit op bij haar liefdevolle stiefvader in een arm deel van Noord-Mexico. Van jongs af aan is ze eigenzinnig en laat ze zich weinig aanpraten door wat anderen als juist beschouwen; haar grote passie is schrijven. Op zeventienjarige leeftijd publiceert ze onder een mannelijk pseudoniem succesvol goedkope romans, maar het echte leven lijkt haar avontuurlijker en ze wordt verslaggever bij een krant. Samen met haar collega Eric, een jonge man met een sterke uitstraling, reist ze naar Chili om te berichten over de opkomende burgeroorlog en de geschiedenis van haar voorouders. Terwijl Emilia dieper in het verhaal van haar vader duikt, komt ze tussen de fronten terecht en moet ze zich niet alleen met gevaar, maar ook met de dringende vragen over haar eigen afkomst bezighouden. Dit is het verhaal van een vrouw die haar eigen weg probeert te vinden, een meeslepende historische roman over pijnlijke liefde en onverzettelijke moed.

Eine inspirierende Geschichte über den kleinen Hund Perla, der mit ihrem großen Herzen und zwei Superkräften, die Liebe zu gewinnen und wie ein Löwe zu brüllen, ihrem Freund Nico hilft, sein Selbstvertrauen zurückzugewinnen. Charmant und farbenfroh illustriert von Sandy Rodriguez.

Isabel Allende, die erfolgreichste Schriftstellerin Lateinamerikas, schöpft Inspiration aus ihrem turbulenten Leben. Geboren in Peru und aufgewachsen in Chile, erlebte sie den Militärputsch 1973 hautnah. Nach ihrer Flucht vor dem Pinochet-Regime schrieb sie ihren ersten Roman. In Gesprächen mit Martin Scholz reflektiert sie über Feminismus, Liebe im Alter und ihre kreative Muse.

This powerful novel weaves together the past and present, exploring the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children from different eras. In Vienna, 1938, six-year-old Samuel Adler loses everything when his father disappears during Kristallnacht. His mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train to the UK, where he boards alone with only a change of clothes and his violin. Fast forward to Arizona, 2019, where seven-year-old Anita Diaz, who is blind, and her mother flee danger in El Salvador, seeking refuge in the U.S. Their arrival coincides with a family separation policy, leaving Anita alone in a Nogales camp. She escapes into Azabahar, a magical world she created with her sister. Anita's case is assigned to social worker Selena Duran, who teams up with a promising lawyer from a top San Francisco firm. Together, they uncover a connection between Anita and another family member in the U.S.: Leticia Cordero, who works for eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler. Spanning time and place, this narrative serves as a testament to parental sacrifices and a love letter to children who endure unimaginable dangers while continuing to dream.

1930'ların sonlarında, İspanya'da iç savaş patlak verir. General Franco ve faşistleri hükümeti devirdiğinde, yüz binlerce insan, Fransız sınırına giden tehlikeli bir yolculuğa çıkmak zorunda kalır. Aralarında, hamile genç bir dul olan Roser de vardır; hayatı, ölen aşkının kardeşi olan ordu doktoru Victor Dalmau ile kaçınılmaz bir şekilde iç içe geçer. Hayatta kalmak için, ikisi de istemediği bir evlilikte birleşmek zorundadır ve birlikte, şair Pablo Neruda tarafından desteklenerek, yeni bir yaşam arayışında 2,200 diğer mülteciyle birlikte SS Winnipeg gemisine binerler. Beklenmedik ortaklar olarak, sürgün hayatını benimserler ve Avrupa'nın İkinci Dünya Savaşı'na sürüklendiği sırada Şili'ye göç ederler. Yeni bir kıtada yeniden başlarken, zorlukları henüz yeni başlamaktadır. Hayatları boyunca, birçok sınavla karşılaşacaklardır. Ancak, sürgün hayatının sona ereceği günü sabırla beklerken, en beklenmedik yerlerde dostlar da bulacaklardır. Tüm bunlar boyunca, evlerine yeniden kavuşma umudu onları ayakta tutar. Ve sonunda, evin her zaman düşündüklerinden daha yakın olabileceğini keşfedeceklerdir.

One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling

Un delizioso racconto infantile in cui, infatti, lei è grassa e di porcellana, un racconto pieno di umorismo e immaginazione, che risponde a questa domanda: Cosa può succedere a un uomo grigio che porta a casa una signora di porcellana?

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a passionate meditation on womanhood. Isabel Allende begins by recalling her childhood, where she witnessed her mother, abandoned and voiceless, support three children. This experience ignited her fierce determination to fight for the life her mother couldn't have. As she matured in the late 1960s, Allende embraced the second wave of feminism, finding a sense of belonging among female journalists who boldly addressed women's issues. Throughout her life, she has witnessed the movement's achievements and navigated three passionate marriages, learning to grow alongside a partner, recognize when to step away, and embrace her sexuality. Allende reflects on what nourishes the souls of feminists and all women today: safety, value, peace, resources, connection, bodily autonomy, and love. Despite progress, she acknowledges that much work remains. Through her words, she hopes to inspire future generations, urging them to continue the fight for equality and empowerment, just as previous generations have done for them. This book serves as a beacon for daughters and granddaughters, encouraging them to carry on the essential work still ahead.

Internationally bestselling author of The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds

From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the older woman and her grandson, Seth, at Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

Een alternatief therapeute en haar dochter krijgen te maken met enkele samenhangende moorden in San Francisco.

"Amore e desiderio secondo Isabel Allende" riunisce i testi più significativi dell'autrice, esplorando le sue profonde riflessioni sull'amore, la passione e l'intimità. Attraverso il suo stile unico, Allende invita i lettori a immergersi nelle sue visioni sulle relazioni umane e sul desiderio.

1770, Santo Domingo, ora Haiti. Tété ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perché si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, i campi di canna da zucchero, la calura sfibrante dell'isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. Tété impara presto com'è fatto quel mondo: la violenza dei padroni, l'ansia di libertà, i vincoli preziosi della solidarietà. Quando Valmorain si sposta nelle piantagioni della Louisiana, anche Tété deve seguirlo, ma ormai è cominciata la battaglia per la dignità, per il futuro, per l'affrancamento degli schiavi. È una battaglia lenta che si mescola al destarsi di amori e passioni, all'annodarsi di relazioni e alleanze, al muoversi febbrile dei personaggi più diversi – soldati e schiavi guerrieri, sacerdoti vudù e frati cattolici, matrone e cocottes, pirati e nobili decaduti, medici e oziosi bellimbusti. Contro il fondale animatissimo della Storia, Zarité Sedella, soprannominata Tété, spicca bella e coraggiosa, battagliera e consapevole, un'eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano a rammentarci la fede nella libertà e la dignità delle passioni.

The author of 'The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction.

"In twenty-nine years, Rose Darlen has never spent a moment apart from her twin sister Ruby. She has never gone for a solitary walk or had a private conversation. Yet, in all that time, she has never once looked into Ruby's eyes. Joined at the head, "The Girls" (as they are known in their small town) attempt to lead a normal life, but can't help being extraordinary. Now almost thirty, Rose and Ruby are on the verge of becoming the oldest living craniopagus twins in history, but they are remarkable for a lot more than their unusual sistery bond."--Back cover.

Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Im strengbewachten Guggenheimmuseum in Bilbao feiern Elena und Pedro eines Nachts ein orgiastisches Fest. Aber wie sind sie hineingekommen? Ein Wunder? Magie? Sinnliche, unerhörte Geschichten erzählt hier Isabel Allende, Geschichten voller Liebe und Erotik, Leidenschaft und übermütigem Humor, Geschichten von starken und eigenwilligen Frauen - und von liebestrunkenen Männern, die nicht immer wissen, wie das Herz einer Frau zu gewinnen ist.

La pluma mágica de Allende nos invita a conocer, en esta preciosa trilogía de aventuras, realismo mágico y naturaleza, a Alexander Cold, un muchacho americano de quince años; a su abuela Kate, una reportera de viajes; y a Nadia Santos, una compañera de aventuras muy especial. En La Ciudad de las Bestias partirán en busca de una bestia gigantesca que se halla en la vasta selva del Amazonas, donde conocerán a un chamán indígena que les mostrará las maravillas de su tierra. En El Reino del Dragón de Oro conocerán las enseñanzas budistas cuando visiten el Himalaya, donde se esconde la estatua del dragón de Oro, un objeto magnífico de piedras preciosas cuyo descubrimiento puede provocar daños irreparables en estas tierras. En El Bosque de los Pigmeos viajarán al corazón de África para ayudar a liberar de la esclavitud a los pigmeos y favorecer la paz entre las tribus. Un mundo sorprendente del que nunca querrás salir.

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 who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

An epic wartime romance which sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemmas as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to claim her heart.

In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory—and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.

An epic tale of love and conquest, lyrically written and enchantingly told by a writer at the peak of her powers. A real historical figure, Ines Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende -- one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers -- re-imagines Ines's life and that of the two men who become her lover and husband respectively. 'Ines of My Soul' evokes the conflict and drama of the Conquistadors' arrival in Chile, as well as helping restore the reputation of Ines, a powerful woman long neglected by history and a patriarchal society. It also finds Allende returning to territory beloved of her and her readers -- imaginative historical fiction, evocatively told -- and to the familiar landscape of her native country. The novel gives Ines the recognition and glory that are rightfully hers; but more than that it is an epic tale of love and conquest, lyrically written and enchantingly told by a writer at the peak of her powers.

Nacido en California a finales del siglo XVIII, Diego de la Vega es un niño de dos mundos: hijo de un noble español y de una guerrera indígena. Su padre, dueño de una gran hacienda, le enseña desde joven a esgrimir y espera verlo como su heredero, mientras que su madre le transmite las tradiciones de su pueblo y el anhelo de libertad. Orgulloso y audaz, Diego se indigna pronto por las atrocidades de los colonizadores españoles contra los indígenas y siente el conflicto interno de su ascendencia. A los dieciséis años, Diego deja su hogar para recibir un "pulido europeo" en Barcelona. España se encuentra bajo el dominio de Napoleón, y pronto Diego se une como "Zorro" a una sociedad secreta que se ha conspirado para buscar justicia. Sin embargo, no es solo la justicia lo que impulsa a Diego a realizar actos temerarios, sino también su incontrolable amor por Juliana. Pero pronto se ve obligado a huir de la persecución política y de intrigas mortales. A pie, atraviesa España junto a Juliana, su hermana y su gobernanta. Cada vez más, Diego asume el papel de "Zorro". Y como tal, regresa a California para reclamar justicia con su espada por todos aquellos cuyo espíritu de lucha parece ya quebrantado. Un gran héroe ha nacido, la leyenda comienza.

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric.

From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head - with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew - to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlists the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoube. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands. The final instalment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings - and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship.

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth an overdue acknowledgment that Allende had indeed left home. My Invented Country, mimicking the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance between past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants and to all of us who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions.

Die schönsten Erzählungen der Erfolgsautorin Isabel Allende zum Welttag des Buches 2002 in einer gebundenen schönen Taschenbuchausgabe zu einem einmaligen Sonderpreis: Starke und eigenwillige Frauen, Liebe und Erotik, Leidenschaft und Gewalt, übermütiger Humor und das vitale Nebeneinander von Lebenslust und Schicksal prägen diese ausgewählten Geschichten, die in einem Südamerika spielen, das von den kalten Südzonen bis zum hitzigen Dschungel und den ölschwitzenden Küstenstädten der Karibik reicht. In diesen Erzählungen aus dem Band »Geschichten der Eva Luna« zeigt sich auf wunderbare Weise ein charakteristischer Wesenszug der Autorin: die Begeisterung für das Leben.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

La raccolta di 80 ritratti a mano di persone indigene e tribali di Phil Borges è un testamento silenziosamente bello alla forza e alla dignità intrinseca dello spirito umano. Borges si concentra su individui che mantengono le loro tradizioni culturali in paesi dall'Etiopia e dal Kenya al Tibet, e dal Messico all'Indonesia. Con le sue fotografie e le didascalie che le accompagnano, Borges crea un ponte tra le parole dei suoi soggetti e le nostre, offrendo un ritratto coinvolgente ma non sentimentale delle loro terre, dei loro sogni e delle relazioni familiari e comunitarie che li sostengono. Isabel Allende riflette sull'importanza del rispetto reciproco per gli individui diversi da noi, persone che, come quelle catturate dall'obiettivo di Borges, "possiedono risorse spirituali profonde, saggezza naturale e conoscenza del loro ambiente fisico che noi abbiamo perso."

Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings, personal anecdotes, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of foodand its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of alcoholic beverages, and much more. An ode to sensuality that is an irresistible blend of memory, imagination and the senses, Aphrodite is familiar territory for readers who know her fiction.

An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en. California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence to the young Chilean, and her search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.

Nel 1992 Isabel Allende subì la perdita della figlia Paula, morta dopo un lungo periodo di coma nel quale era caduta in seguito ad un attacco acuto di porfiria. In seguito a tale evento, la scrittrice pubblicò "Paula", lungo racconto epistolare in cui ripercorreva le tappe della vita della figlia. "Paula" ottenne un grande successo e Isabel Allende ricevette una grande quantità di lettere dai suoi lettori, lettere di sostegno, di condivisione di esperienze. Alcune fra le più belle lettere ricevute, la scrittrice le ha raccolte in questo volume.

»Erzähl mir eine Geschichte«, sage ich zu dir. »Was für eine möchtest du?« – »Erzähl mir eine Geschichte, die du noch niemandem erzählt hast.« Es sind Geschichten fürs Leben und aus dem Leben, die Isabel Allende hier erzählt, mit Leidenschaft, Erotik und Humor. Aber es ist weniger die grelle Liebe und Leidenschaft, vielmehr die stille, elementare Kraft, die dem Dasein außergewöhnlichen Sinn und Verlauf gibt. Ihre Geschichten spielen alle in einem Südamerika, das von den kalten Südzonen bis zum hitzigen Dschungel und den Küstenstädten der Karibik reicht. Eine Geschichtenerzählerin nennt sich Isabel Allende, die im Erfinden einer Geschichte dem Leben in seinen widersprüchlichsten und vitalsten Aspekten auf den Leib rückt, sich selbst und den Lesern zum besseren Verständnis.

Twintig kleurrijke verhalen van het Latijnsamerikaanse continent.

An autobiography of the life and family of Chilean author, Isabel Allende.

Warum erwarb sich Dulce Rosa den unverdienten Ruhm der Schönheit? Die Titelerzählung »Eine Rache« berichtet von dieser Frau, die als junges Mädchen die Ermordung ihres Vaters und die eigene Vergewaltigung erleben mußte. Dulce Rosa ist gezeichnet – sie weist alle Bewerber ab, »denn ihre Aufgabe in dieser Welt war die Rache«. Als der Augenblick da ist, der Täter und Opfer zusammenbringt, drehen sich Pläne, Leidenschaft und Erinnerung wie in einem Wirbel zu einem unentrinnbaren Sog. Fünf Erzählungen wurden aus der Sammlung »Geschichten der Eva Luna« ausgewählt: »Ein diskretes Wunder«, »Verdorbenes Kind«, »Der verschwundene Palast«, »Walimai« und »Eine Rache«. Sie sind in Atmosphäre, Szenerie und Thematik so unterschiedlich wie das erzählerische Temperament ihrer Erzählerin. Doch fast immer gehen sie aus von einem schicksalhaften Augenblick, der das Leben eines Menschen von Grund auf ändert. Dieser Augenblick ist so bestimmend, daß es kein Entrinnen gibt, auch wenn Jahre oder gar Jahrzehnte vergangen sind.

Drieëntwintig geschiedenissen over liefde en alledaags geweld in Latijns-Amerika.

Na pozadí príbehu veľkej lásky zobrazuje život v Chile po vojenskom prevrate. Román je dielom o večne živej láske, ktorá je schopná najťažších skúšok, plným lyrizmu, ale zároveň je obrazom hrôzy vyjadreným sugestívnym jazykom.

The author of The House of the Spirits and The Stories of Eva Luna returns with the tale of one man's search for identity as he struggles to overcome a childhood of neglect and poverty. His quest takes him from the tough barrio of Los Angeles to law school in pursuit of the American Dream.

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.

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.

20 Jahre ist es her, daß Isabel Allende mit ihrem unvergleichlichen Bestseller Das Geisterhaus die deutschen Leserinnen und Leser begeisterte. In Fortunas Tochter und Porträt in Sepia erzählt die chilenische Autorin die nicht weniger turbulente Vorgeschichte der über den amerikanischen Kontinent verzweigten Familie del Valle.§§