Isabel Allende

Romanen Åndenes hus fra 1982 er den chilenske forfatteren Isabel Allendes gjennombruddsroman. Boken startet som et brev Isabel Allende skrev til sin dødssyke bestefar, men som videre utviklet seg, og som til slutt endte opp som bok. Bestefaren døde før boken ble gitt ut. Romanens handling veksler mellom …

An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigidbrother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the …

Eva Luna er en roman av Isabel Allende utgitt i 1987, på norsk i 1988.

In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize …

Zorro is a 2005 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Its subject is the pulp hero Diego de la Vega, better known as El Zorro, who was featured in an early 20th-century novel. The novel takes the form of a biography and is the first origin story for this legendary character. In terms of material, it is a prequel to …

"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." So says Chilean writer Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits) in the opening lines of the luminous, heart-rending memoir she wrote while her 28-year-old daughter Paula lay in a coma. In its pages, she ushers an …

Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable …

De ville guders by er en ungdomsroman, skrevet av den chilenske forfatteren Isabel Allende i 2002. Boken er første del i en trilogi. De to andre bøkene er Gulldragens rike og Pygmeenes skog. Handlingen er lagt til Amazonas, der den amerikanske gutten Alexander og hans venninne, Nadia, tar seg innover i jungelen sammen …

In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Inés Suárez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As Inés makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Together the lovers …

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”— Boston Globe “Allende is a genius.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review From Isabel Allende, the beloved New York Times bestselling author ofInés of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, and The House of the …