Isabel Allende
42) Aphrodite
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore.
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
If you've ever wished to sit down over a cup of tea and a plate of chocolates for an intimate conversation with a favorite author, you'll treasure this dialogue. Isabel Allende reflects on her early years in Chile, her decision to take her family into exile, the culture she left behind, and her views on politics and feminism in the world today. Ms. Allende shares the events and emotional experiences that inspired the writing of her books, and explains...
Author
Language
English
Description
Isabel Allende talks about her passion for writing. She speaks with great depth of feeling about the death of her daughter Paula. She says, "Every book is triggered by a very strong emotion that has been with me for a long time, and usually that emotion is painful. However, the process of writing is so joyful."
47) Paula
Author
Language
Español
Description
Allende recounts the story of her ancestors and youth while waiting next to her daughter's hospital bedside, and reflects on the challenges and achievements of one family during a turbulent time in Chilean history.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Atrévete a amar.
La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un guiño a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor.
«Mi vida sexual comenzó temprano, más o menos a los cinco años, en el kindergarten de las monjas ursulinas, en Santiago de Chile.» Con estas palabras, Isabel Allende inicia este compendio sobre amor y eroscompuesto por fragmentos escogidos de sus obras, que esbozan a través
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Language
Español
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Description
Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeña que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlántico. Anhela también vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En América, Inés no encuentra a su marido, pero sí un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Franciso Pizarro, junto a quien Inés se enfrenta...
52) Amor
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestr©Ưa, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilaci©đn de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitaci©đn a sumergirse en la lectura, so©łar y sonre©Ưr. La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un gui©ło a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"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,...
59) Dom Dukhov
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
"Three generations of the Trueba family ... patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...