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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.

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.

EJEMPLAR FIRMADO POR LA AUTORA Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -«en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible»- para urdir una trama que present

The life story of Isabel Allende a?? one of the world''s favourite writers a?? is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents'' home in Chile. She left school at 16; and married Miguel Fr?-as at 19. She then juggled her work as a journalist, editor, advice columnist and television interviewer with looking after her two children. But when her cousin the Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated in 1973 in Pinochet''s right-wing military coup, her life changed profoundly. It was too dangerous to stay in Chile; and she, her husband, and their two children fled to Venezuela. During her impoverished exile, she started writing a??The House of the Spiritsa??. Based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, it became an international bestseller and everything changed againa?

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A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist, Isabel Allende, the author with over 50 million books sold worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits, was based on her Chilean childhood, include the deeply moving 'Paula' to explore the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in The Sum of the Days, based on Allende's own journals, 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.

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.

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.

Alexander Cold, his grandmother Kate, and his closest friend Nadia return in the follow-up to City of the Beasts on a new quest to find the fabled Golden Dragon of the Himalayas, another fantastical voyage of suspense, magic, and awe-inspiring adventure from internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende.Not many months have passed since teenager Alexander Cold followed his bold grandmother into the heart of the Amazon to uncover its legendary Beast. This time, reporter Kate Cold escorts her grandson and his closest friend, Nadia, along with the photographers from International Geographic, on a journey to another location far from home.Entering a forbidden sovereignty tucked in the frosty peaks of the Himalayas, the team's task is to locate a sacred statue and priceless oracle that can foretell the future of the kingdom, known as the Golden Dragon.In their scramble to reach the statue, Alexander and Nadia must use the transcendent power of their totemic animal spirits-Jaguar and Eagle. With the aid of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors, Alexander and Nadia fight to protect the holy rule of the Golden Dragon-before it can be destroyed by the greed of an outsider.

In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26 fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist spent in the corridors of the Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside Paula's bed during the summer and autumn of 1992. Faced with the loss of her child, Isabel Allende turned to storytelling, to sustain her own spirit and to convey to her daughter the will to wake up, to survive. The story she tells is that of her own life, her family history and the tragedy of her nation, Chile, in the years leading up to Pinochet's brutal military coup.