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Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.

Emilia del Valle Walsh nasce a San Francisco nel 1866. Sua madre, Molly Walsh, è una suora irlandese sedotta da un aristocratico cileno. Emilia cresce nel cuore di un umile quartiere messicano, diventando una giovane donna brillante e indipendente che sfida le norme sociali per perseguire la sua passione per la scrittura. Da giovanissima, inizia a scrivere romanzi d'avventura sotto lo pseudonimo di Brandon J. Price, ma la sua carriera decolla quando diventa editorialista al San Francisco Examiner.

As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.

Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers — and never stop dreaming.

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of 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 father's 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.

“Parola dopo parola ho creato la persona che sono e il paese inventato in cui vivo”. Come i personaggi di alcuni suoi romanzi memorabili, Isabel Allende, segnata dal dolore per l’esilio, torna con il ricordo alla sua gioventù e alle sue radici, a un paese ormai “inventato” e sfocato a causa della lunga distanza, dei traumi causati dal golpe, della diaspora della famiglia e della sua personale odissea, intessuta di passioni, drammi, successi. Dopo tanta vita e tanti abbandoni, tanti libri scritti e tanta nostalgia, Isabel torna al suo Cile.

Love, be it wild or tender, often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection of two souls is plain magic. Bibiña Aranda, runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a naked man whose name she doesn’t know. She and the man with no clothes, Indar Zubieta, attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum.

Il romanzo di Isabel Allende racconta la storia di Maya Vidal, un'adolescente che cade nel circuito dell'alcol e della droga a Las Vegas. In fuga da spacciatori e agenti dell'FBI, Maya approda nell'arcipelago di Chiloé, nel Sud del Cile. In queste isole remote, Maya impara a conoscersi e a scoprire verità nascoste sulla sua terra d'origine, trovando infine l'amore. Il romanzo alterna il racconto della difficile storia precedente di Maya, fatta di marginalità e degrado, con la sua rinascita in un'atmosfera di vita semplice e valori solidi.

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 on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love.

The final installment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy of the journeys of Jaguar and Eagle soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, as Alexander and Nadia embark on mission in Kenya that begins as a search for elephants and ends up exposing a system of injustices.

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team - including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor - is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.

Una bimba solitaria si innamora dell’amante della madre e, nelle torride sieste della pensione in cui vive, inventa misteriose cerimonie che conducono entrambi sull’orlo di un profondo abisso. Da un sotterraneo abbandonato viene liberata una vecchia rimasta prigioniera per mezzo secolo, vittima di un caudillo geloso. Quando si ritrova all’aperto, nuda, i lunghi capelli bianchi che sfiorano terra, gli occhi ciechi per il buio di decenni, non ricorda neppure il proprio nome.

Исабель Альенде называют королевой магического реализма и достойной продолжательницей традиций Маркеса. В романе 2005 года главным героем становится неожиданный персонаж - красавец и авантюрист, герой многочисленных книг, фильмов и комиксов: дон Диего де ла Вега по прозвищу Зорро.

Eine außergewöhnliche Frau. Hundert Jahre Geschichte. Ein unvergessliches Leben. Violeta Del Valle ist 100 Jahre alt und erzählt während der Corona-Pandemie ihrem Enkel in Briefen aus ihrem unglaublichen Leben: 1920 wurde sie während der Zeit der Spanischen Grippe als erste Tochter der Familie Del Valle geboren. Leidenschaft, Entschlossenheit und Humor tragen Violeta durch ein Jahrhundert südamerikanischer Geschichte voller Krisen und Umbrüche, aber auch durch ein intensiv gelebtes Leben.

Esteban Trueba, ein Mann aus einfachsten Verhältnissen, kommt zu Vermögen und Macht. Seine Verlobte Rosa del Valle verstirbt in jungen Jahren. Ihre übersinnlich begabte Schwester Clara besitzt die Fähigkeit, Katastrophen vorherzusehen. Estebans Tochter Blanca verliebt sich hoffnungslos in Pedro, den Sohn des Vorarbeiters. Durch ihre Augen sehen wir, wie Chile sich von den 1920er Jahren bis zur Militärdiktatur um 1970 entwickelt: Persönliche Dramen und politische Umbrüche prägen das Bild einer Familie und eines Landes über vier Generationen hinweg.

Zarité ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perché si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, campi di canna da zucchero, la calura dell'isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. La storia di una donna che lotta per emanciparsi dalla sua condizione di schiava nella Haiti di fine '700. Un'eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano per ricordarci la fede nella libertà e la dignità delle passioni.

Una saga familiare del XX secolo in cui si rispecchiano la storia e il destino di tutto un popolo. Un grande affresco che per fascino ed emozione può ricordare al lettore, nell'ambito della letteratura sudamericana, soltanto "Cent'anni di solitudine" di García Márquez.

Isabel Allendes leidenschaftliche und inspirierende Betrachtung darüber, was es bedeutet, eine Frau zu sein. Was treibt die Seele einer Feministin - und jeder Frau - heutzutage an? "Ich übertreibe nicht, wenn ich sage, dass ich schon als Kind Feministin war." Als junges Mädchen ist Allende kämpferisch, fest entschlossen, ein anderes Leben zu führen als ihre Mutter - unabhängig und selbständig, nicht auf die Hilfe ihres Mannes angewiesen. Als junge Frau schließt sie sich einer Gruppe von gleichgesinnten Journalistinnen an und schreibt mit Leidenschaft über Frauenthemen.