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Bloomsbury presents Storytelling by Isabel Allende, read by Victoria Villarreal. 'A grand storyteller who writes with surpassing compassion and insight ... She will be celebrated, by readers and writers alike, for generations to come' KHALED HOSSEINI 'One of our most revered storytellers' KATE...

Brought to you by Penguin. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce...

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.

Bloomsbury presents The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, read by Maria Liatis and Edoardo Ballerini. THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' – KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' –...

Bloomsbury presents A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, read by Edoardo Ballerini. _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations… Full of ambition and humanity' – Sunday Times 'One of the strongest...

Bloomsbury presents Violeta by Isabel Allende, read by Yareli Arizmendi. _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE _______________ 'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta...

Love, be it wild or tender, often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection of two souls is plain magic. Bibiña Aranda, runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a naked man whose name she doesn’t know. She and the man with no clothes, Indar Zubieta, attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum.

Bloomsbury presents Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende, read by S. Epatha Merkerson ‘A magical storyteller’ Daily Mail It is 18th century Saint Domingue, and Tété never knew her parents. All she knows is that her mother was a slave, and that her white father’s identity will forever...

“Spectacular story-telling . . . the author’s elaborate skill in weaving intimate emotional detail into the broad canvas of history is in fantastic display.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution A spellbinding family saga set in the same universe as The House of the Spirits and Daughter of...

“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”—Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and...

Bloomsbury presents Paula by Isabel Allende, read by Cynthia Farrell with a foreword read by Isabel Allende 'Allende's best work to date' New York Times In December 1991, Isabel Allende’s daughter Paula fell into a coma. This book was written by her beside – a memoir, a family history and a...

Bloomsbury presents Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, read by Blair Brown with Isabel Allende ‘If you like your passions grand and your views panoramic, then Daughter of Fortune will be irresistible’ The Times In colonial Chile, 1832, the infant Eliza is found on the doorstep of the...

A profound exploration of the art and magic of writing by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende. In this deeply personal and insightful book, Isabel Allende delves into her creative process, reflecting on nearly half a century of writing that has captivated millions of readers...

Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard to duplicate. This volume features some of the best readers dramatizing some of the best writings.

Bloomsbury presents The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende, read by Gisela Chipe. _______________ 'An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood … Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' – Grazia 'In her small, potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende writes about the toxic...

Bloomsbury presents The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende, read by Blair Brown with a foreword read by Isabel Allende 'No amount of acrobatics can out do the absolute core of Allende's talent: her gift for writing' The Times In the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula, Isabel Allende...

In her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series, novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on how her daughter's life--and death--taught her that "In Giving I Connect With Others". This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing...

Isabel Allende nimmt uns mit auf eine Abenteuerreise, dorthin, wo ihre Geschichten und Romane entstehen. Vor allem aber erzählt uns Isabel Allende von sich selbst – denn das Schreiben ist für sie nicht bloß Handwerk, es ist ein unaufhörlicher Drang, ein Akt der Hingabe, eine zutiefst menschliche Möglichkeit, das flirrende Chaos der Welt zu bändigen, dem eigenen Leben einen Sinn zu geben.

In the second children's book written by critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog, saves her human brother, Nico Rico, after he gets lost on the way home from school. Perla is a mighty dog who has two superpowers—making people love her...