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Bestseller internacional (Nueva York)Allende, Isabel.
Summary: Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. Two life-altering events inflect the peripatetic narration of this book: The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer. The terrorist attack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 863.64 AllAllende, Isabel
Summary: The author describes her lifelong commitment to feminism in a meditation on what it means to be a woman, discussing progress within the movement in her lifetime, what remains to be done, and how to move forward in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ALLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALLENDE ALLAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 ALLAllende, Isabel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLENDE, ISABEL ALLAllende, Isabel
Summary: Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALLAllende, Isabel.
Summary: A narrative memoir of the author's life in the wake of her daughter's tragic death describes the idiosyncratic network of friends she has gathered around herself and the realizations she has formed about such topics as love, parenthood, and addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLENDE, ISABEL ALLCorreas de Zapata, Celia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 2002