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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** 'In some of the most beautiful passages in the novel, Allende explores the gentle but redemptive depths of mature love and the paths it can take . . . Allende has an unflashy wisdom to offer, a maturity that illuminates her storytelling . . . it pursues an age-old question: how to live a full life and find meaning, not just survive or endure one's past' Financial Times on In the Midst of Winter New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented migrant from Guatemala. But what at first seems an inconvenience takes an unforeseen and darker turn when Evelyn comes to him and his neighbour Lucia Maraz, desperately seeking help. Sweeping from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent 1970s Chile and Brazil, and woven with Isabel Allende's trademark humanity, passion and storytelling verve, In the Midst of Winter is a mesmerizing and unforgettable tale. Praise for Isabel Allende: `Isabel Allende is a master storyteller. When it comes to love Isabel writes from the heart to the heart and I feel all the richer for having been touched by her' Santa Montefiore `If Allende's life depended on her narrative gifts, she'd not only survive, but reign' Los Angeles Times `Isabel Allende is the most romantic of writers and The Japanese Lover is a novel of high romance and lush sensuality, unashamedly about the enduring power of love and ending on a note of grace' The Times `Lush storytelling, with a liberal dusting of South American magical realism and a multi-gener-ational narrative sweep' Financial Times `Internationally beloved Allende, as effervescent in her compassion, social concerns, and profound joy in storytelling as ever, brings both humor and intensity to this madcap, soulful and transporting tale of three survivors who share their traumatic pasts ... Allende has a rare and precious gift for simultaneously challenging and entrancing readers' Booklist, starred review `Grief and loss are transformed into healing friendship in this fantastic novel ... A suspenseful, icy adventure. Filled with Allende's signature lyricism and ingenious plotting, the book delves wonderfully into what it means to respect, protect, and love' Publishers Weekly `This winter's tale has something to melt each frozen heart' Kirkus Reviews

An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Bustle, Ms. magazine, PopSugar, The Week, Electric Lit, The Millions, She Reads, Lit Hub, Book RiotVioleta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with 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 fathers 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 everything 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.

Violeta del Valle es la primera niña de una familia de cinco hermanos truculentos. Nació un día tormentoso, en 1920, cuando aún se sentían los devastadores efectos de la Gran Guerra y la gripe española llegaba a su Sudamerica natal.Decadas despues, en una larga carta dirigida a su compañero espiritual, su mas profundo amor. de su larga existencia, Violeta recuerda desamores y relaciones apasionadas, momentos de pobreza y prosperidad, terribles perdidas e inmensas alegrias. Su vida estara marcada por algunos de los momentos mas importantes de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el ascenso y la caida de los tiranos, los ecos lejanos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Contada desde el punto de vista de una mujer decidida, de intensas pasiones, con una vida llena de sorpresas, Violeta es una novela epica, inspiradora y emotiva, al mejor estilo de Isabel Allende.

Primera novela de Isabel Allende , La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse a raiz del paso del tiempo y de un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrara a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegracion.

En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación. La cautivadora protagonista de este libro es un nostálgico alter ego de la autora, que se llama a si mima ladrona de historias precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y del mundo. Como una moderna Scherezade, Eva Luna convierte su vida en una tragicomedia por la que desfila una sorprendente galeria de personajes: un embalsamador de cadaveres, una madrina que sobrevive a una decapitacion, una mujer con cuerpo de hombre, un fotografo austriaco atormentado por los recuerdos del nazismo

Cualquier libro de Isabel Allende es un acontecimiento. Paula lo es especialmente porque se trata del más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de todos los que ha publicado hasta la fecha. Esta novela es un autorretrato de insolita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreacion de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra epoca, Paula, perdura en el animo del lector con la intensidad de una experiencia indeleble.

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.

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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.

Isabel Allende escribe con el corazón para que sus lectores vuelvan a leer con el alma. Inés Suárez no es más que una humilde costurera extremeña hasta que, empeñada en encontrar a su esposo, perdido en sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlantico, se embarca hacia America. Alli comienza el heroico destino de una mujer que desafio las convenciones de la epoca y se vio involucrada en la fundacion del Reino de Chile. Guerra, pasion y esta valiente luchadora que conquisto Chile en el siglo xvi y que ahora conquistara el corazon de miles de lectores.

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.