Isabel Allende

“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 …

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for …

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 …