Of Love and Shadows, Isabel Allende
Of Love and Shadows, Isabel Allende
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Of Love and Shadows

Author: Isabel Allende

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/26/2019


Synopsis

This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist—and the men and women who dare to challenge it.

Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they are an inseparable team and—despite Irene’s engagement to an army captain—form a passionate connection. When an assignment leads them to uncover an unspeakable crime, they are determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence. Together, they will risk everything for justice—and, ultimately, to embrace the passion that binds them.

About Isabel Allende

It is a good person who is a world renowned author, but says her best achievement is not her books, but the love she shares with a few people, especially her family, and having always tried to help people. Such are the thoughts of Isabel Allende, a Chilean author who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Hussein Obama. She has written: The House of the Spirits, and City of the Beasts. Her novels are considered to be the genre of magical realism. They are usually based on her own experiences, historical events, and pay homage to the lives of women. She also uses elements of myth and realism.

Allende was born in Lima, Peru. Her father was a cousin to Salvador Allende, the President of Chile from 1970 to 1973. Her father left her mother, so Isabel ended up moving to many places when her mother married a diplomat. In 1962 Isabel married an engineering student, when she moved back to Chile to complete her secondary education. She then led a dual life as obedient wife and mother, but in public was Barbara Cartland, well-known tv personality, a dramatist, and journalist with a feminine magazine.

Allende had jobs with the United Nations in Santiago, then Brussels and elsewhere. In Chile she translated books from English to Spanish, but was fired because she made some changes on her own (which were not appreciated) and was altering some endings from "happily ever after", to allow the heroine some independence to do good in the world.

She now runs the Isabel Allende Foundation, founded in 1996 to honor the author's daughter Paula Frias, who passed away at age 29. They award life-changing grants to women to improve their care.


Reviews

الجاهلون بالتاريخ محكوم عليهم بتكراره* و*كلما طال الليل خفنا النور و ألفنا الظلال وحاربنا الشمس وبأمريكا اللاتينية و بلادنا الشرق الاوسطية ستجد التاريخ يعيد نفسه بسماجة بالغة لعقود متتالية وسؤال إجباري يقفز عندما تكتشف دوما انه يستحيل على البشر التعلم من التاريخ هل التمرد هو فضيلة الأنسان الحقيقية؟* ت......more

الجاهلون بالتاريخ محكوم عليهم بتكراره* و*كلما طال الليل خفنا النور و ألفنا الظلال وحاربنا الشمس وبأمريكا اللاتينية و بلادنا الشرق الاوسطية ستجد التاريخ يعيد نفسه بسماجة بالغة لعقود متتالية وسؤال إجباري يقفز عندما تكتشف دوما انه يستحيل على البشر التعلم من التاريخ هل التمرد هو فضيلة الأنسان الحقيقية؟* ت......more

Goodreads review by Sherif

"هذه قصّة رجل وامرأة، أحبّ كلاهما الآخر بكل جوارحه، لينجوَا بذلك من حياةٍ مبتذلة. وقد حملتُ القصة في ذاكرتي بحرصٍ كي لا يُبليها الزمن. والآن، في ليالي هذا المكان الصامتة، استطعتُ روايتها أخيرًا. لقد فعلتُ هذا من أجلهما، ومن أجل آخرين أودعوني حيواتهم قائلين: خُذي، اكتبي كي لا تمحوه الريح." أكاد أجزم......more

my most favourite isabel allende novel; i would learn another language just for the pleasure of reading her in her native tongue. if the translation is so beautiful i can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be in spanish. i have to explain that i review the books i have read not on their objectiv......more