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Un libro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocación, la vida, la felicidad añorada y los espacios más queridos de Isabel Allende. Amor por Chile y una gran nostalgia son el origen de este libro: la presencia continuada del pasado, el sentimiento de verse ausente de la patria, la conciencia de haber sido peregrina y forastera... todo ello lo transmite Isabel Allende con inteligencia y humor. Aqui Chile deviene un pais real y fantastico a la vez; una tierra estoica y hospitalaria, de hombres machistas y mujeres fuertes y apegadas a la tierra. Pero, sobre todo, es el escenario de su niñez. Evocados con gracia, cobran vida de nuevo su original familia, la casa de los abuelos, el ceremonial de las comidas, las historias de infidelidades... y los espiritus que siempre la han acompañado. Reseña: "Un libro que capta mi entera atencion al exponer la relacion de la autora con ese pais suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria inventada, con su vocacion de escritora." Jorge Edwards

La casa de los espíritus narra la historia de la saga de los Trueba, una poderosa familia de terratenientes. Ambientada en algún lugar de América Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dramático y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y exotico, que encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales y abarca practicamente todo el siglo XX.

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works include the deeply moving 'Paula' -- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma -- and the fascinating My Invented Country, which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in 'The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life.The book is particularly illuminating and revealing about her working life -- she must begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a year.'The Sum of the Days', based on Allende's own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.

Una lección magistral de cómo hacer frente a los distintos retos que depara la vida. Isabel Allende narra a su hija Paula todo lo que ha sucedido con la familia desde el momento en que ella murió. El lector vive, junto con la autora, la superacion personal de una mujer con una fuerza inspiradora, rodeada siempre de amigos y familiares. Su historia es emotiva, pero tambien esta repleta de humor, personajes pintorescos y anecdotas caoticas y divertidas sobre la complicidad, el amor, la esperanza, la magia y la fuerza de la amistad.

Una lección magistral de cómo hacer frente a los distintos retos que depara la vida.Isabel Allende narra a su hija Paula todo lo que ha sucedido con la familia desde el momento en que ella murió. El lector vive, junto con la autora, la superacion personal de una mujer con una gran fuerza inspiradora, rodeada siempre de amigos y familiares. Su historia es emotiva, pero tambien esta repleta de humor, personajes pintorescos y anecdotas caoticas y divertidas sobre la complicidad, el amor, la esperanza, la magia y la fuerza de la amistad.

Isabel Allende escribe con el corazón y lo hace para narrar la historia de Inés Suárez, la mujer que conquistó Chile en el siglo XVI y que ahora conquistará el corazón de miles de lectores. Al igual que lo hizo en Hija de la fortuna, Retrato en sepia o La casa de los espiritus, en Ines del alma mia Isabel Allende vuelve a derrochar pasion y pura vida en cada una de sus paginas.

Created by teachers and writers, each title in this series provides a complete and thoughtful analysis of several of the most valuable works of world literature. Intended as a starting point for a better understanding and appreciation of literature, each analysis also imparts information about the author, the social and historical background, structure and traditions of literary genres, facts about characters, and a bibliography to encourage further intellectual exploration. Esta colección es una herramienta indispensable para el estudio y análisis de obras clásicas de la literatura universal. Los libros de formato agradable y presentación moderna ofrecen un análisis crítico, información sobre los personajes y los géneros literarios, una bibliografía, y un compendio de la obra en particular junto a un estudio del autor y su época.

Edición que reúne en un solo volumen las tres novelas de la trilogía de Isabel Allende «Memorias del Águila y el Jaguar»:La Ciudad de las Bestias,El reino del Dragón de Oro yEl Bosque de los Pigmeo

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 memoryand recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.

Alex ha quindici anni ed è un ragazzo come tanti, va a scuola, suona il flauto e ama scalare le montagne. Quando però sua madre si ammala gravemente, viene affidato alla nonna Kate, famosa giornalista sempre in giro per il mondo, che lo porta con sé in una pericolosa missione nella foresta amazzonica. Qui, sulle tracce di una leggendaria creatura dalle dimensioni mostruose, il ragazzo incontra Nadia, figlia della guida brasiliana che accompagna la spedizione. Insieme i due ragazzi dovranno affrontare la Bestia, svelare il mistero dell'acqua della vita e delle uova di cristallo, scoprire dove vive il Popolo della Nebbia e salvare gli indios dallo sterminio, oltre che la propria pelle. Usciranno da questa avventura trasformati: d'ora in poi si chiameranno Aquila e Giaguaro. L'intrepida nonna Kate presto coinvolge i due ragazzi, ormai inseparabili, in altri viaggi: nel Regno Proibito, tra le montagne dell'Himalaya, dove conosceranno la medicina orientale, le arti marziali, il buddismo e vedranno messa a repentaglio l'armonia di una cultura millenaria, e poi in un safari a dorso d'elefante nel cuore dell'Africa, tra coccodrilli, re, generali, stregoni voodoo e missionari, dove l'antico popolo dei pigmei è tenuto in schiavitù da tre avidissimi potenti. Età di lettura: da 13 anni.

Passeggiando per i giardini della memoria, tra gli spiriti del passato e quelli del futuro, Isabel Allende scopre che i suoi ricordi sono indissolubilmente legati ai sensi e che il piacere dell'amore e quello della cucina, amici inseparabili, accompagnano la sua vita e la sua arte, le sue storie e i suoi desideri. I legami tra erotismo e gastronomia colorano le sue riflessioni, guarniscono le sue ricerche familiari, insaporiscono i suoi incontri. Incurante dei rigidi confini che separano i generi letterari, l'Allende si aggira scanzonata e pungente tra facezie e tabu sessuali. Il tutto servito con tanti disegni, un pizzico di divertita misura e una spruzzata di delicata autoironia.

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue - now known as Haiti - Tete is the product of violent union between an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tete and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When bloody revolution arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, Tete finally forges a new life - but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.

The narrator and protagonist of 'Maya's Notebook' is a 19 year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, with the two strands of the story unfolding at the same time.