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The Chilean Isabel Allende is arguably the world's most popular living woman writer. A marvelous ability for storytelling, particularly the hidden stories of women's lives, is the secret of Allende's success. 

Isabel Allende took the literary world by storm with her 1982 publication of The House of the Spirits, a novel which chronicled four generations of a Chilean family against the backdrop of Chile�s brutal history. The New York Times called the book "a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present and future of Latin America." 

Who was this author whose first novel had some comparing her work to those of the great Latin American writers of this century?

Daughter of Fortune.

 Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) / Hardcover / Published 1999
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From Booklist , August 19, 1999
The latest novel by one of the most internationally appreciated writers draws on two of the environments about which Allende knows much: Chile, her native land, and California, where she currently resides. Allende proves she has learned history well and that she knows characters instinctively as she reaches back into both Chile's and California's past to construct a story of family conflict, romantic love, and true adventure, all these threads spun into a fine, even beautiful, narrative of admirable force. 

Washington Post
Like a slow, seductive lover, Allende teases, tempts and titillates with mesmerizing stories.

New York Times Book Review
Brilliant.

Los Angeles Times Book Review
Allende is a genius.

Miami Herald
A passionate storyteller. Her writing is lyrical, mystical, ribald, funny.

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There is something about reading suggestive material that awakens the senses--too often ignored in the fray of modern life--and fires the imagination. Perhaps it brings us back to those breathless, palpitating moments from childhood when puberty was a rosy smudge on the horizon and sex was an abstract term. Aphrodite is a long, savory, enthralling ode to sensuality.

In this bawdy memoir-cum-cookbook, Allende has put together an apothecary of aphrodisiacs, from snake's blood and rhinoceros horn to the more commonplace and more palatable oysters, "those seductive tears of the sea, which lend themselves to slipping from mouth to mouth like a prolonged kiss ... can be purchased in bottles, but there they look like malignant tumors; in contrast, moist and turgid in their shells they suggest delicate vulvae--a prime example of food that appeals to the eye." Chapters such as "Alligators and Piranhas"; "Supreme Stimulus for Lechery"; "Bread, God's Grace"; "Forbidden Fruits"; and "The Saucy Way to Foreplay" offer categorical listings on the aphrodisiac qualities of meats, spices, fruits and vegetables, and alcohol. A few chapters into the book, one begins to wonder what foods aren't considered erotic: "the shape of the wheat head is considered phallic, which proves human imagination knows no limits." Wine (no surprise there) is recommended because "it lessens inhibitions, relaxes, and fosters joy, three fundamental requirements for good performance, not only in bed but at the piano as well." However, as in many situations, moderation is key: too much and you may find your guest asleep in the soup.

Allende dismisses nouvelle cuisine in favor of earthier foods and more satisfying portions. More than 100 recipes are provided, from sauces and soups to hors d'oeuvres, supplemented with her voluptuous commentary. Recipes such as Mykonos Sauce, with walnuts, pistachios, basil, garlic, and milk; Widower's Figs; Filet Mignon Belle Epoque; and Alicante Cream Soup, with leeks, shrimp, oysters, paprika, and cream will have you in an apron (and perhaps not much else) in no time.

El Plan Infinito/the Infinite Plan
Isabel Allende / Paperback / Published 1995

The Infinite Plan is a mesmerizing, poignant saga of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect.

Infinite Plan : A Novel
Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) / Paperback /Published 1994
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Giving Birth, Finding Form/Cassette: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art ~Isabel Allende, et al / Audio Cassette / Published 1993

Mothers and Sons : In Their Own Words
Isabel Allende (Introduction), et al / Paperback / Published 1996

Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende Patricia Hart / Hardcover / Published 1989

Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende's Novels (American University Studies. Series Xxii. Latin American Literature, Vol 14) Sonia Riquelme Rojas, Edna Aguirre Rehbein (Editor) / Published
1991

Short Stories by Latin American Women : The Magic and the Real /Celia C. De Zapata (Editor), Isabel Allende / Paperback 

Books in English and in Spanish

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin (Translator) /Paperback / Published 1986

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Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprised of such heavy hitters as Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. 

 But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. 

Of Love and Shadows
Paperback / Published 1988
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Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.

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Paperback / Published 1989

Eva Luna tells her story, a picaresque tale of the people she has encountered, including a Lebanese emigre, a street urchin, a transsexual entertainer, and a German refugee. 

From the Publisher
"An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination... "Imaginative, original, convincing, pointed, and spiced with good humor and wit." -- San Francisco Chronicle.

"Remarkable... a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human... Allende seems to draw characters and tales from a bottomless well as Eva Luna narrates the story of her life." -- Washington Post Book World.

Cuentos De Eva Luna/The Stories of Eva Luna  Paperback / Published 1995.- Price: $10.40 ~ You Save: $2.60 (20%)
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In this magical bestseller, the story-telling heroine of Eva Luna returns with a rich treasure trove of tales--two dozen vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. Here is the foreign made indelibly familiar by the imagination, the passion, and the eloquence of one of the world's leading writers.

Paula Isabel Allende, Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden / Paperback / Published 1996.-

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With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense.

Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma, Paula is the colorful story of Allende's lifefrom her early years in her native Chile, through the turbulent military coup of 1973, to the subsequent dictatorship and her family's years of exile. In the telling, bizarre ancestors reveal themselves, delightful and bitter childhood memories surface, enthralling anecdotes of youthful years ... 

Conversations With Isabel Allende (Texas Pan American Series) ~ 

 

 

Isabel Allende, et al / Paperback / Published 1999
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In a collection of thirty-four interviews spanning the 1980s and 1990s, she tells her own story in her own words.

Books by Isabel Allende in Spanish

Hija de La Fortuna (in Spanish) ~ 

Isabel Allende / Hardcover / Published 1999 Price: $18.20 ~Save: $7.80 (30%)