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Allende Isabel
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Retrato En Sepia
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092006-03-16
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A finales del siglo XIX en Chile, Aurora del Valle sufre de un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco aNos de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, pero se ve atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traicion del hombre que ama, y la soledad, decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.
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The Sum of Our Days
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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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 her 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 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.
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Island Beneath the Sea
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. 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.
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Cuentos De Eva Luna
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Debolsillo Издательство: Debolsillo Год: 2004 Страниц: 278 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092006-07-24
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Eva Luna, amante, revolucionaria, narradora, reclinada en la cama con su amante, le cuenta una historia «que nunca ha contado antes a nadie», en veintitres vivdos y fascinantes relatos sobre guerrilleros y nigromantes, seductores y tiranos, diplomáticos y acróbatas. En esta estupenda colección de cuentos, Isabel Allende continúa la magia de su muy elogiada novela Eva Luna.
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Paula
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Debolsillo Издательство: Debolsillo Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad.
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El Bosque De Los Pigmeos
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Debolsillo Издательство: Debolsillo Год: 2008 Страниц: 220 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102009-12-23
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Nadia y Alexander viajan al corazón de África con su abuela Kate, a quien han encargado un gran reportaje. Su encuentro con el hermano Fernando, un misionero que está buscando a dos compañeros desaparecidos, marca 21 comienzo de este nuevo destino: la selva tropical africana, donde la caza clandestina del elefante y otros animales salvajes arrastra a mercenarios sin escrúpulos. Los malvados son ahora los jefes de la Hermandad del Leopardo: el comandante Mbembelé, el brujo Sombe y el rey Kosongo, que ha esclavizado a la tribu de los pigmeos. Los protagonistas, empujados por la curiosidad primero y la solidaridad después, lograrán sortear mil y un peligros gracias a sus poderes: Nadia, de hacerse invisible y hablar con los animales. Alexander, de transformarse en jaguar, y ambos de poder comunicarse con los espíritus. Entrarán en contacto con la cultura de los pigmeos, a los que, con la ayuda del espíritu de la reina Nana Asante, lograrán liberar de la esclavitud. La paz entre los pigmeos y las otras tribus será posible a partir de ahora. Con El Bosque de los Pigmeos, Isabel Allende cierra la trilogía «Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar», iniciada con La Ciudad de las Bestias.
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Retrato En Sepia: Una Novela
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Debolsillo Издательство: Debolsillo Год: 2008 Страниц: 363 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20102010-10-07
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Isabel Allende narra aquí la asombrosa historia de Aurora del Valle, que a los 30 años va en busca de su brumoso pasado familiar, después de vivir en San Francisco a cargo de su abuela Paulina, una rica empresaria hecha a sí misma. Cuando Paulina vuelve a Chile, una serie de mujeres fortalecerán el carácter de Aurora, que a finales del siglo XIX se perfila como defensora de los derechos de la mujer en una sociedad dominada por los hombres...
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De Amor Y De Sombra
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Debolsillo Издательство: Debolsillo Год: 2008 Страниц: 232 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20102013-08-23
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Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar. «La he llevado en la memoria cuidándola para que el tiempo no la desgaste, y es sólo ahora cuando puedo finalmente contarla. Lo haré por ellos y por otros que me confiaron sus vidas para que no las borre el viento». Estas bellas palabras proporcionan la clave de un libro en el que la imaginación y realidad discurren al mismo nivel. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramáticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de América Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza. Con ternura e impecable factura literaria, Isabel Allende perfila el destino de sus personajes como parte indisoluble del destino colectivo de un continente marcado por el mestizaje, las injusticias sociales y la búsqueda de la propia identidad. Este logrado universo narrativo es el resultado de una lúcida conciencia histórica y social, así como de una respuesta estética que constituye una singular expresión del realismo mágico.
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Ines of My Soul
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 356 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20122011-10-23
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Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Ines Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans--the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies. Ines of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Ines Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.
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Of Love and Shadows
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth. Irene Beltran, a reporter, comes from a wealthy background; Francisco Leal, a young photographer secretly engaged in undermining the military dictatorship, is strongly attracted by her beauty. It does not matter that Irene's fiance is an army captain: each time Francisco accompanies her on a magazine assignment, he falls more deeply in love with her.When they go to investigate the mysterious case of Evangelina Ranquileo, a girl suffering from spectacular fits which are rumoured to have miraculous powers, the arrival of soldiers adds a sinister aspect to the mystery. And then Evangelina disappears. Irene and Francisco, in trying to trace her and indict the Junta, become engulfed in a vortex of terror and violence.
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Eva Luna
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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My name is Eva, which means life, according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory. Isabel Allende tells the sweet and sinister story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
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Paula
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families — a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story. This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist Isabel Allende spent in the corridors of a Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside her daughter 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.
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El Reino Del Dragon De Oro
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Celesa Издательство: Celesa Год: 2005 Страниц: 325 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092008-09-10
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Isabel Allende El Reino del Dragón de Oro 325 S., Taschenbuch Debolsillo neu . La estatua del Dragón de Oro permanece oculta en un reino pequeno y misterioso, enclavado en la cordillera del Himalya. Y según cuenta la leyenda, este magnifico objeto, un poderoso instrumento de adivinación incrustado de piedras preciosas, preserva la paz de estas tierras. Una paz que ahora, por la codicia en el alma de los hombres, puede verse perturbada. En el Reino del Dragón de Oro, Isabel Allende nos invita a entrar en una doble aventura. Alexander Cold, su abuela Kate y Nadia Santos, los protagonistas de la Ciudad de las Bestias, han vuelto a reunirse. Viviremos con ellos sus perepecías y vicisitudes en la belleza desnuda., limpia, de las montanas y las valles del Himalaya en compania de nuevos amigos. Pero la pluma mágica de Allende también nos descubre el valor y la sencillez de las ensenanzas budistas a través del lama Tensing, maestra y guía espiritual de Dil Bahadur, el joven heredero del reino, a quien conduce por la senda del budismo y ha dado a conocer el valor de la compasión, de la naturaleza, de la vida, de la paz.
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El Cuaderno de Maya
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 442 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-18
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Un pasado persiguiendola. Un futuro aun por construir. Y un cuaderno para escribir toda una vida. Soy Maya Vidal, diecinueve anos, sexo femenino, soltera, sin un enamorado, por falta de oportunidades y no por quisquillosa, nacida en Berkeley, California, pasaporte estadounidense, temporalmente refugiada en una isla al sur del mundo. Me pusieron Maya porque a mi Nini le atrae la India y a mis padres no se les ocurrio otro nombre, aunque tuvieron nueve meses para pensarlo. En hindi, maya significa 'hechizo, ilusion, sueno'. Nada que ver con mi caracter. Atila me calzaria mejor, porque donde pongo el pie no sale mas pasto. Esta Maya me ha hecho sufrir mas que ningun otro de mis personajes. En algunas escenas le habria dado unas cachetadas para hacerla entrar en razon, y en otras la habria envuelto en un apretado abrazo para protegerla del mundo y de su propio corazon atolondrado.
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The Island Beneath the Sea
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarite — known as Tete — is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tete finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. 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 the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island that will become Haiti 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.
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