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Me apprepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana", ya que "la sexualidad es un componente de la buena salud, inspira la creacion y es parte del camino del alma. . .Por desgracia, me demoré treinta años en descubrirlo".

Inâes Suâarez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeäna que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueänos de gloria al otro lado del Atlâantico. Anhela tambiâen vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En Amâerica, Inâes no encuentra a su marido, pero sâi un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Franciso Pizarro, junto a quien Inâes se enfre...

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric.

In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and me...

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'.

Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, Retrato en sepia es una magnífica novela histórica, situada a finales del siglo XIX en Chile, y el retrato de una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los espíritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Allende.. El tema principal es la memoria y los secretos de familia. La protagonista, Aurora del Valle, sufre un trauma brutal que determ...

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The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s.

Herhalde meydanlara benim heykellerimi dikecekler, adimi tasiyan sokaklar ve sehirler olacaktir, ayni Pedro de Valdivia ve diger fatihler gibi, ama erkekleri dövüsürken kasabalar kuran yüzlerce yigit kadin unutulup gidecektir. Bu sözlerin sahibi Inés Surez, Ispanyanin Extremadura kentinden mütevazi bir terzi kizdir. Capkin kocasi Malagali Juan, san ve seref hayalleriyle Atlantikin öte yanindaki yeni Ispanyol sömürgelerine gidince, onu bulmak u...

Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité—known as Tété—is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his tr...

La voz de Inés Suárez, la protagonista de la novela, relata una bella historia de amor, lucha, traición y pasión.Esta novela está basada en la vida de Inés Suárez, una mujer extremeña cuyo esposo, Juan de Málaga, viaja al Nuevo Mundo en el s. XVI en busca de El Dorado. Años después ella decide ir en su búsqueda. Cuando recibe la noticia de que su esposo ha fallecido, se une al grupo de conquistadores que pretenden llegar a Chile. La fuerza de ...

A comprehensive selection of work from this renowned writer and human rights activist.

Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferre, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. The resulting book is a literary tour de forc...

A new collection of work by accalimed poet Marjorie Agosin.

This collection reflects the author's deeply rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosin spent her summers at the Chilean seaside, near Neruda's home at Isla Negra. "The sea, the rocks, marine images became important elements in my creative work, " she said recently. Here she creates a world where everything touches the sea and is, in turn, touched by it, a world peopled by those who "carry the scents of the river and the sign o...

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A wealth of voices from twentieth century Mexico offer unique perspectives on their culture.

Fiction. This landmark collection rescues the voices of great women of Latin American letters, many of them distinguished in their own countries but largely unrecognized abroad. The stories of LANDSCAPES OF A NEW LAND show the wide range of themes, images, and languages encountered in the new territories of the Latin American narrative written by women.

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history.In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, cul...