Books by Isabel Allende (3)


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Violeta by Isabel Allende EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
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.”—People Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homela... continue

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Violeta : Roman by Isabel Allende PT

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Violeta veio ao mundo em um dia tempestuoso de 1920, a primeira menina em uma família com cinco filhos. Desde o início, sua vida foi marcada por acontecimentos extraordinários: ainda era possível sentir os efeitos da Grande Guerra quando a gripe espanhola chegou ao seu país, pouco antes do seu nascimento. A família saiu ilesa dessa crise, mas não conseguiu enfrentar a seguinte. A Grande Depressão transformou totalmente a vida urbana que Violeta conhecia. Sua família perdeu tudo e foi forçada a se mudar para uma parte mais... continue

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Zorro : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal in... continue