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Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...
3) Paula
Author
Language
English
Description
Newly Reissued
New York Times Bestselling Author
"Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful."
—Los Angeles Times
When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child.
...Author
Series
Ave fénix volume 168/2
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland by bestselling author Isabel Allende
In My Invented Country Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today.
The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende...
10) My name is Gabriela: the life of Gabriela Mistral = Me llamo Gabriela : la vida de Gabriela Mistral
Author
Publisher
Luna Rising
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gabriela Mistral loved words, sounds and stories. Born in Chile, she would grow to become the first Nobel Prize-winning Latina woman in the world. As a poet and a teacher, she inspired children across many countries to let their voices be heard.
Sumario en español: A Gabriela Mistral le encantaban las palabras, los sonidos y los cuentos. Nació en Chile y llegó a ser la primera mujer latina que ganara un Premio Nobel. Como poeta y como maestra,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xix, 332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In September 1973, the military took power in Chile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president Salvadore Allende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is the story of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet "s death squads, to safe houses in Paris...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ariel dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" (Newsweek) and a "storyteller of almost mythic intensity" (The Financial Times). In his brilliant memoir, Heading South, Looking North, Dorfman explores the many exiles of a life torn, from age two, between the United States and Latin America, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the remarkable story of how he switched languages and cultures-not once,...
14) Pablo Neruda
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and times of the Chilean poet and diplomat.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
628 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st English-language ed.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mystical autobiography of Alejandro Jodorowsky's childhood that blends his personal history with metaphor, mythology, and poetry. It reflects his philosophy that reality is not objective, but rather a "dance" created by our own imaginations.
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