"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...

La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los es̕pritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos, ahora en una edición especial con motivo de su 40 aniversario, y con nuevo prólogo de su autora. 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 patriarca...

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold, accompanying his eccentric grandmother, a writer, on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

The teenager Alexander Cold, his best friend Nadia and his grandmother Kate, a specialist in travel journalism, have survived their adventure in the Amazon regions. Now they are setting out for another remote area of the world with some National Geographic photographers. Their mission is to enter a forbidden kingdom, hidden in the icy peaks of the Himalayas, to find the legendary sacred statue and oracle, the Golden Dragon.

"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...

"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people...

Ines Suarez es una joven y humilde costurera extremena que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus suenos de gloria al otro lado del Atlantico. Anhela tambien vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En America, Ines no encuentra a su marido, pero si un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Francisco Pizarro, junto a quien Ines se enfrenta a los riesgos...

"En [esta libro], la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vínculo con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy." -- jacket. 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. "Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y...