Paula
In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26 fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist spent in the corridors of the Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside Paula's bed during the summer and autumn of 1992. Faced...
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In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26 fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist spent in the corridors of the Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside 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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ISBN:
9780006548560 (0006548563)
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 ...