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Isabel Allende

    August 2, 1942

    Isabel Allende, a writer in the tradition of "magic realism," is recognized as one of Latin America's first successful women novelists. Her works, often drawing from personal experience and focusing on the lives of women, skillfully blend myth and reality. Allende, who holds Chilean-American dual nationality, has cultivated a distinctive narrative voice that captivates readers globally.

    Isabel Allende
    The sum of our days
    Paula
    Maya's Notebook. Mayas Tagebuch, englische Ausgabe
    Ines of My Soul
    The house of the spirits
    Zorro, English edition
    • 2024

      Perla The Mighty Dog

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      In the first children's book written by critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog, teaches her human brother, Nico Rico, how to use his superpowers to stand up to a bully. Perla is a mighty dog who has two superpowers—making people love her, and roaring like a lion. When she finds out her human brother, Nico Rico, is being bullied at school, she knows she has to step in! But what will Perla do? In a charming and poignant story about the bond between child and pet, Isabel Allende makes her children's literary debut.

      Perla The Mighty Dog
    • 2024

      Perla

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      **Get ready to meet Perla - the feisty, magical rescue dog who will steal your heart!**From #1 international bestselling author Isabel Allende and award winning illustrator Sandy Rodriguez comes the first in a series of picture books about a dog called Perla and the family who love her! Meet Perla. She's a small dog with a BIG personality and a very impressive roar. When she's adopted by the Ricos, a Mexican-American family in search of a guard dog, Perla quickly makes friends with seven-year old Nico Rico - who needs someone to help him deal with the school bullies. Soon, Perla has changed the lives of everyone in the Rico family ... and found a place in their hearts forever.

      Perla
    • 2023

      The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration. Vienna, 1938: Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht the night his family loses everything. As her child s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019: Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita s mother.

      The Wind Knows My Name
    • 2022

      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. 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. Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all others, this is the story of a hundred-year life - of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Bearing witness to a century of history, it is a life shaped by the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humour will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.

      Violeta
    • 2021

      The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende - a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. "When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating." As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality. So what do women want? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will 'light the torch of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.'

      The Soul of a Woman
    • 2020

      Maya's Notebook LP

      • 572 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      3.7(82)Add rating

      Set against the backdrop of Berkeley, the story follows nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal, who navigates life in a sprawling old house with her loving yet complex grandparents. Nini, her grandmother, is a resilient Chilean immigrant who embodies strength and determination, while Popo, her grandfather, provides a soothing influence as an African American astronomer. Their contrasting personalities shape Maya's journey through the challenges of her youth, exploring themes of family, identity, and resilience.

      Maya's Notebook LP
    • 2017

      In the Midst of Winter

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(1530)Add rating

      Originally published in Spain in 2017 as "Más allá del invierno," this book explores themes of resilience and human connection against a backdrop of winter's challenges. It invites readers to reflect on the complexities of life and relationships.

      In the Midst of Winter
    • 2015

      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.

      The Japanese Lover. Der japanische Liebhaber, englische Ausgabe
    • 2015

      From international literary phenomenon Isabel Allende: an exquisite multi-generational love story that sweeps from WWII to present-day San Francisco

      The Japanese Lover
    • 2014