Review:
"A powerful memoir" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A warm meditation on family and love.A book to be savored and reread." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Allende is a genius." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Allende s THE SUM OF OUR DAYS adds up to an exuberant love letter not only to her daughter, but to her tribe and anyone lucky enough to belong to one. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A powerful memoir --Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A warm meditation on family and love A book to be savored and reread. --Kirkus Reviews
A vibrant voice, which is at once introspective and forthright an inspiring and thought-provoking work The insights resonate, on page after page. --Denver Post
THE SUM OF OUR DAYS is terrific. It s funny, insightful, moving and filled with Allende s unique voice. --USA Today
Allende s trademark magical realism is ever present...This high-spirited, emotionally packed book enables readers to get a closer look at the life of a much-loved writer. --Library Journal
A deeply revealing memoir . . . Allende s insight is keen, her prose polished and her language hypnotic . . . This is a book to savor. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author:
Isabel Allende nacio en Peru donde su padre era diplomatico chileno. Vivio en Chile entre 1945 y 1975, con largas temporadas de residencia en otros lugares, en Venezuela hasta 1988 y, a partir de entonces, en California. Inicio su carrera literaria en el periodismo en Chile y en Venezuela. Su primera novela, La casa de los espiritus, se convirtio en uno de los titulos miticos de la literatura latinoamericana. A ella le siguieron otros muchos, todos los cuales han sido exitos internacionales. Su obra ha sido traducida a treinta y cinco idiomas. En 2010, fue galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, y en 2012, con el Premio Hans Christian Andersen de Literatura por su trilogia El Aguila y el Jaguar.
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