Eva Luna, entwined with her lover in bed, is asked to tell him a story 'you have never told anyone before'. As she relates a tale of twenty-three interwoven parts, she knits a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and landscape of South America. Here are guerrillas and fortune-tellers, tyrants and gr[...]

Un pasado persiguiendola. Un futuro aun por construir. Y un cuaderno para escribir toda una vida.
"Soy Maya Vidal, diecinueve anos, sexo femenino, soltera, sin un enamorado, por falta de oportunidades y no por quisquillosa, nacida en Berkeley, California, pasaporte estadounidense, temporalmente [...]

Atrevete a amar.
Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestria, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilacion de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitacion a sumergirse en la lectura, sonar y sonreir. La gran narradora ch[...]

A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destin[...]

Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by an often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.[...]

Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltran works as a magazine journalist--a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist emigres. Together, they form an unlikely[...]

Tal como predijo la astrologa mas reputada de San Francisco, una oleada de crimenes comienza a sacudir la ciudad. En la investigacion sobre los asesinatos, el inspector Bob Martin recibira la ayuda inesperada de un grupo de internautas especializados en juegos de rol, Ripper.
"Mi madre todavia e[...]

First published in 1973 as Las Venas Abiertas de AmTrica Latina by Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, this analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America presents a clear, passionate account of 500 years of Latin American history, written with drama, humor, and compassio[...]

Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through rev[...]

Poems and prose by Latin America's first Nobel Prize laureate.
"This beautiful anthology holds the first English translation of Gabriela Mistral's extraordinary poetry and prose... hidden to the mainstream no longer, here is the breathtaking lifework of a most gifted and enigmatic muse."--"NAPRA[...]