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We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities - she can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Beautiful, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon.Her husband-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, given to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa's fiancé, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen - has summoned - to be her husband; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and rancorous life.We go with this couple as they move into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls "the big house on the corner," which is soon populated with Clara's spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban's political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children: Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman, and the twins, Jaime and Nicolás, the former a solitary, taciturn boy who becomes a doctor to the poor and unfortunate; the latter a playboy, a dabbler in Eastern religions and mystical disciplines and, in the third generation, the child Alba, Blanca's daughter (the family does not recognize the real father for years, so great is Esteban's anger), a child who is fondled and indulged and instructed by them all.For all their good fortune, their natural (and supernatural) talents, and their powerful attachments to one another, the inhabitants of "the big house on the corner" are not immune to the larger forces of the world. And, as the twentieth century beats on, as Esteban becomes more strident in his opposition to Communism, as Jaime becomes the friend and confidant of the Socialist leader known as the Candidate, as Alba falls in love with a student radical, the Truebas become actors - and victims - in a tragic series of events that gives The House of the Spirits a deeper resonance and meaning.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Bustle, Ms. magazine, PopSugar, The Week, Electric Lit, The Millions, She Reads, Lit Hub, Book RiotVioleta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with 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 fathers 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. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling.

La paura non e reale, e solo nella tua mente. I nostri pensieri danno forma a cio che noi supponiamo sia la realtaUn piccolo e paradisiaco paese, il Regno Proibito, incastonato tra le montagne dellHimalaya, che vive in un pacifico e millenario isolamento; un monaco buddista che si sta occupando della formazione spirituale del giovane erede al trono; la preziosa statua del Drago doro in grado di predire il futuro in una lingua sconosciuta. E poi, ancora, tanti impressionanti personaggi, popoli e sette sanguinarie: il Collezionista, che nutre la follia di diventare luomo piu ricco del mondo; lo Specialista, capo di una potente organizzazione criminale, scaltro e senza scrupoli; gli spietati Guerrieri blu, la Setta dello Scorpione, gli yeti. Questi sono gli ingredienti della nuova avventura che vede protagonisti Nadia e Alexander, stavolta alle prese con il malefico piano di trafugare la statua dai poteri divinatori e di rapire il re del Regno Proibito, lunico che puo interpellarla. Tra i picchi innevati, verranno a conoscenza dei fondamenti della medicina orientale, delle arti marziali e del buddismo. Durante la loro pericolosa missione, che richiede astuzia e coraggio, entrano in contatto con una cultura straordinaria che arricchisce il loro innato desiderio di comprendere cio che e nuovo e diverso. Le peripezie saranno innumerevoli, ma la posta e alta: e in gioco larmonia di un popolo sapiente che incarna i valori piu nobili dellumanita.

Isabel Allende Les Contes d'Eva Luna Eva Luna, héroïne du précédent roman d'Isabel Allende, n'avait pas son pareil pour conter des histoires aussi extraordinaires que véridiques, tirées de la chronique locale de son village, Agua Santa. On trouvera ici un nouvel échantillon du talent de la Schéhérazade latino-américaine. Vingt-trois récits burlesques ou sombres, de nostalgie ou de colère, d'ironie ou de révolte. Vingt-trois contes d'une prodigieuse diversité de situations, où la romancière de La Maison aux esprits révèle les mille et une facettes de son inspiration.

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.

Raccontata attraverso gli occhi di una donna che vive un secolo di sconvolgimenti con passione, determinazione e senso dell''umorismo, Isabel Allende ci consegna ancora una volta una storia epica che esalta ed emoziona.Violeta nasce in una notte tempestosa del 1920, prima femmina dopo cinque turbolenti maschi. Fin dal principio la sua vita e segnata da avvenimenti straordinari, con l''eco della Grande guerra ancora forte e il virus dell''influenza spagnola che sbarca sulle coste del Cile quasi nel momento esatto della sua nascita. Grazie alla previdenza del padre, la famiglia esce indenne da questa crisi solo per affrontarne un''altra quando la Grande depressione compromette l''elegante stile di vita urbano che Violeta aveva conosciuto fino ad allora. La sua famiglia perde tutto ed e costretta a ritirarsi in una regione remota del paese, selvaggia e bellissima. Li la ragazza arriva alla maggiore eta e conosce il suo primo pretendente... Violeta racconta in queste pagine la sua storia a Camilo in cui ricorda i devastanti tormenti amorosi, i tempi di poverta ma anche di ricchezza, i terribili lutti e le immense gioie. Sullo sfondo delle sue alterne fortune, un paese di cui solo col tempo Violeta impara a decifrare gli sconvolgimenti politici e sociali. Ed e anche grazie a questa consapevolezza che...

Titulo original: Mas alla del invierno. Autora Hispana

The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover**New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented migrant from Guatemala. But what at first seems an inconvenience takes an unforeseen and darker turn when Evelyn comes to him and his neighbour Lucia Maraz, desperately seeking help. Sweeping from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent 1970s Chile and Brazil, and woven with Isabel Allende's trademark humanity, passion and storytelling verve, In the Midst of Winter is a mesmerizing and unforgettable tale. Praise for Isabel Allende: `Isabel Allende is a master storyteller. When it comes to love Isabel writes from the heart to the heart and I feel all the richer for having been touched by her' Santa Montefiore `If Allende's life depended on her narrative gifts, she'd not only survive, but reign' Los Angeles Times `Isabel Allende is the most romantic of writers and The Japanese Lover is a novel of high romance and lush sensuality, unashamedly about the enduring power of love and ending on a note of grace' The Times `Lush storytelling, with a liberal dusting of South American magical realism and a multi-gener-ational narrative sweep' Financial Times

La nova novel·la de la Isabel AllendeLa història d'amor entre la jove Alma Belasco i el jardiner japonès Itximei condueix al lector per un trajecte a través de diversos escenaris que van des de la

La nueva novela de Isabel Allende. La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japones Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a traves de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el San Francisco de nuestros dias. "A los veintidos años, sospechando que tenian el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras mas intentaban agotarlo, mas imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun asi quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxigeno."

La nueva novela de Isabel Allende. La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japones Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a traves de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el San Francisco de nuestros dias. "A los veintidos años, sospechando que tenian el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras mas intentaban agotarlo, mas imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun asi quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxigeno."

Lucía, cilena espatriata in Canada negli anni del brutale insediamento di Pinochet, ha una storia segnata da profonde cicatrici: la sparizione del fratello all’inizio del regime, un matrimonio fallit

La fascinante nueva novela de Isabel Allende. En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliar

That September 2, 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.When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises, they take it, boarding a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow' over the seas. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.

La primera novela de Isabel Allende,La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos.El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrara a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegracion. Atrapados en unas dramaticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una epoca que abarca gran parte del siglo XX.Con impecable pulso narrativo y gran lucidez historica, Isabel Allende ha creado un fresco en el que conviven lo cotidiano con lo maravilloso, el amor con la revolucion y los ideales personales con la dura realidad politica.La critica ha dicho:Un logro unico, a la vez testimonio personal y posible alegoria del pasado, el presente y el futuro de America Latina.The New York Times Book ReviewUna cronica fuerte y absorbente de una familia chilena, con detalles opulentos y con un trasfondo mistico... Un refinada combinacion de escenarios.Kirkus ReviewHay muy pocos viajes mas emocionantes que los realizados en la imaginacion de una novelista genial. Esa experiencia esta disponible enLa Casa de los Espiritusde Isabel Allende...CosmopolitanLa escritura de Allende es tan creativa, divertida y convincente que en el proceso de crear una estimulante novela politica tambien ha creado una viva y una cautivante obra de arte. Sus personajes son fascinantemente detallados y humanos.PeopleUn cuento seductor, a veces magico... En su tumultuosa historia de la rebelion y el amor entre tres generaciones, es una alegoria en la que cualquier familia deberia ser capaz de reconocer un poco de si misma.The Wall Street JournalAbsolutamente sorprendente. EnLa Casa de los Espiritus, Isabel Allende nos ha demostrado la relacion entre el pasado y el presente, la familia y la nacion, la ciudad y el pais, los valores espirituales y los politicos.San Francisco Chronicle