A passionate and startling memoir, written with love

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	• Paula (Spanish Edition) Isabel Allende, 1996 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 107 reviews view larger image
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Masterpiece of storytelling and emotions

Outstanding storytelling, although it many not be totally non-fictional is the reality thru the author's eyes. In this compelling story, the characters are not created or do they developed as the story goes along. The characters are real and Isabel gives us a clear picture of how she sees them. Isabel images and emotions are so clear that the reader is absorbed into her persona.
The novel skillfully combines the story of her daughter sickness with her life story. Although, some episodes of her daughter sickness become repetitive, it only shows how sincere her feelings were lain down in the book.
At the end, you have read more than a story...you had lived an experience.

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A passionate and startling memoir, written with love

Isabel Allende has made her name as a writer in the genre of magic realism, where fantastical events occur, often without warning. When her daughter Paula collapsed into an irreversibly coma due to a rare disease, Allende found herself desperate for a story to tell her dying daughter. This is the book that arose out of a mother's need to understand the past, the future, and the mysterious connection between the two. Allende tells of events before her birth, of Chilean politics and how it affected her famously political family, of falling in love, of becoming a writer, of motherhood, of her journey through Paula's illness - while embracing the spirituality that pervades her fiction. Surprisingly, the story of Allende's life bears remarkable resemblance, both in fact and in imagery, to her bestselling novel THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS.

While sadness frames this memoir, the core of it pulses with life and faith. Beautifully written, with moments that will make you pause with admiration, this book is startling and powerful. Every fan of Allende should read this, both for the context it provides for her writing and for the force of her storytelling.

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Conmovedora

Isabel Allende nos abre su corazón para compartir tal vez uno de los momentos más difíciles de su vida, enfrentar la rara enfermedad de su hija...es una historia profunda y escrita con la sencillez que caracteriza a ésta autora. Una especie de diario narrado por la desesperación de una madre al ver a su hija en coma.

A book fool of love and tenderness from a mother

I read the book in Spanish, since I am a native Spanish speaker. I enjoyed the story and the fresh style of Isabel Allende. The book is a document full of love to her sick daughter, Paula

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