Paula
When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of...
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When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061564901 (0061564907)
ASIN: 61564907
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Oh my this is sad and beuatiful.
I really enjoyed the first part of this book, as it gives a great insight into Isabel Allende and her childhood and her family life in Chile which I found so interesting, This books is really about Allende's daughter Paula and her illness which I feel was very badly explained, I had to google Paula'...
كتبت بعد قرائتي لها العام الماضي:ليس أمرًا هينًا (على كل حال) أن تتمكن كاتبة(أو كاتب) من جذبي لتفاصيل خاصة جدًا بتلك الطريقة المشوِّقة بدون عوامل قد تكون مساعدة كجودة اللغة (في العربية مثلاً) أو عنصر التشويق والمفاجأة (في بعض رواياته) أو غير ذلك، يكون الحدث مستكينًا هادئًا، وتأتي الحكايات والتفاصيل ...
Essential reading for any and all Allende fans. I would recommend reading some of her fictional work (namely House of the Spirits) prior to reading this since this is a memoir of sorts - Allende tells her life story as she tends to her gravely ill and comatose daughter. In order to cope she began ...
17 years ago
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