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Born in Peru, Isabel Allende was raised in Chile. She is the author of the novels Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, The Infinite Plan, Eva Luna, Of Love and Shadows, and The House of the Spirits, the short story collection The Stories of Eva Luna, the memoir Paula, and Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. City of the Beast is her first novel for young readers. She lives in California.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Series
City of the Beasts
1. City of the Beasts (2002)
2. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004)
3. Forest of the Pygmies (2005)
1. City of the Beasts (2002)
2. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004)
3. Forest of the Pygmies (2005)
Novels
The House of the Spirits (1982)
Of Love and Shadows (1984)
Eva Luna (1988)
The Infinite Plan (1993)
Zorro (2005)
Ines of My Soul (2006)
Island Beneath the Sea (2010)
Maya's Notebook (2012)
Ripper (2012)
The Japanese Lover (2015)
In the Midst of Winter (2017)
Of Love and Shadows (1984)
Eva Luna (1988)
The Infinite Plan (1993)
Zorro (2005)
Ines of My Soul (2006)
Island Beneath the Sea (2010)
Maya's Notebook (2012)
Ripper (2012)
The Japanese Lover (2015)
In the Midst of Winter (2017)
Collections
The Stories of Eva Luna (1989)
Giving Birth, Finding Form (1993) (with Jean Shinoda Bolen and Alice Walker)
Aphrodite (1998)
These Are Not Sweet Girls (poems) (2016)
Giving Birth, Finding Form (1993) (with Jean Shinoda Bolen and Alice Walker)
Aphrodite (1998)
These Are Not Sweet Girls (poems) (2016)
Graphic Novels
Non fiction
Paths of Resistance (1989) (with Charles McCarry, Marge Piercy, Robert Stone and Gore Vidal)
Paula (1995)
Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
My Invented Country (2003)
The Sum of Our Days (2008)
Paula (1995)
Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
My Invented Country (2003)
The Sum of Our Days (2008)
Anthologies containing stories by Isabel Allende
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Short stories
| Two Words (1989) | |||
| If You Touched My Heart (1991) |
Awards
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Isabel Allende recommends
Shark Dialogues (1994)
Kiana Davenport
"Great storytelling: An epic feminine saga... as enduring as the pearls her extraordinary women pass down through the generations."
Monkey Bridge (1997)
Lan Cao
"With incredible lightness, balance and elegance, [Lan Cao crosses] over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits."
Bitter Grounds (1997)
Sandra Benitez
"A story of passion, death, and love... This is the kind of book that fills your dreams for weeks."
A Better Woman (2000)
Susan Johnson
"I am writing these lines with tears in my eyes... An extraordinary book from a great writer and a great woman."
The Beholder (2002)
Thomas Farber
"Here's a poet who writes with economy and precise beauty of desire, love, and the irrevocable lonliness of the heart... Don't miss this book."
The Facts of Life (2002)
Graham Joyce
"This is the kind of book I love to read! I have not been so charmed by a novel in a long time."
The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini
"A wonderful work... This is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honor, guilt, fear redemption...It is so powerful that for a long time everything I read after seemed bland."
The Madonnas of Leningrad (2006)
Debra Dean
"An unforgettable story of love, survival;, and the power of imagination... the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share."
The Heiress of Water (2006)
Sandra Rodriguez Barron
"Sandra Rodriguez Barron's exuberant prose yields an immensely entertaining reading experience. You are fraught with the certainty that she is a gatekeeper of the secrets of the sea."
The Dancer and the Thief (2008)
Antonio Skármeta
"Traps the reader from the first page with its political undertones and its undeniable charm."
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