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This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to g...

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is six years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht ? the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever-harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board ano...

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—PeopleONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Real Simple, Reader’s DigestVioleta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a...

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Veintitrés relatos de amor y violencia secretamente entrelazados por un fino hilo narrativo y un rico lenguaje que recrea azarosas peripecias en un mundo exuberante y voluptuoso.

Una niña solitaria se enamora del amante de su madre y practica misteriosas ceremonias rituales; una mujer permanece medio siglo encerrada en un sótano, víctima de un caudillo celoso; en el fragor de una batalla,...

La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos.

El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriar...

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Salvador Allende was a physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile. He was the first socialist to be elected president in Latin America. As president, Allende nationalized major industries, expanded education, improved living standards for workers, and distributed free milk to children. Allende was in office from November 1970 until his death in a US-sponsored coup on September 11, 1973.

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 and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAIL One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the fir...

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 and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAILOne extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforgettable story.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughte...

_______________'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 effects of "machismo?, combining wit with anger as she picks apart the patriarchy' - Independent'Allende has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity' - New York TimesAn Independent, Guardian ...

Isabel Allendes Weltbestseller als ungekürzte Lesung Esteban Trueba, ein Mann aus einfachsten Verhältnissen, kommt zu Vermögen und Macht. Seine Verlobte Rosa del Valle verstirbt in jungen Jahren. Ihre übersinnlich begabte Schwester Clara besitzt die Gabe, Katastrophen vorherzusehen. Estebans Tochter Blanca verliebt sich hoffnungslos in Pedro, den Sohn des Vorarbeiters. Durch ihre Augen sehen wir, wie Chile sich von den 1920er Jahren bis zur...

Carl Jung became fascinated or even obsessed with one of the most picturesque and interesting contactees of the UFO era. Jung put Orfeo Angelucci in his last book: Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1959). Even he said that Orfeo had made up a "new bible." It is possible that if it hadn't been for Carl Jung, most people would never have read Orfeo Angelucci's.But Orfeo's FBI file was destroyed by the FBI years back. Howev...

Eine außergewöhnliche Frau. Hundert Jahre Geschichte. Ein unvergessliches Leben. Violeta Del Valle ist 100 Jahre alt und erzählt während der Corona-Pandemie ihrem Enkel in Briefen aus ihrem unglaublichen Leben: 1920 wurde sie während der Zeit der Spanischen Grippe als erste Tochter der Familie Del Valle geboren. Leidenschaft, Entschlossenheit und Humor tragen Violeta durch ein Jahrhundert südamerikanischer Geschichte voller Krisen und Umbrü...

An einem stürmischen Tag des Jahres 1920 kommt sie zur Welt, jüngste Schwester von fünf übermütigen Brüdern, Violeta del Valle. Die Auswirkungen des Krieges sind noch immer spürbar, da verwüstet die Spanische Grippe bereits ihre südamerikanische Heimat. Zum Glück hat der Vater vorgesorgt, die Familie kommt durch, doch schon droht das nächste Unheil, die Weltwirtschaftskrise wird das vornehme Stadtleben, in dem Violeta aufwächst, für immer been...