Paula, Isabel Allende
Paula, Isabel Allende
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Paula
A Memoir

Author: Isabel Allende

Narrator: Isabel Allende, Cynthia Farrell

Unabridged: 14 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”—Los Angeles TimesIn this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family’s past.When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale. 

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.


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يا الله على آلام أم تذوي ابنتها يوما بعد يوم؛ و هى في سن الثامنة و العشرين.. و تقاوم الأم الموت بالذكرى ..بتاريخ أسرة عريقة تسرده..بصبر..بشجاعة..بايمان عميق بأن دروس الماضي ستجلب لأبنائنا مستقبل أفضل قد يكون الماضي مخجل..شنيع..دموي ..بل تنتمي بعض فصوله للجحيم و لكن الام لم تجد غيره طريقا للحرية ..لها......more

Goodreads review by هدى

باولا لها طعم الملائكة ، ورائحة القديسين حين تتعرف عليها تبدأ بالتحليق دون ان تشعر فهناك أناس قدر برائتهم قدر ما يبقى أمل لك في هذه الدنيا وكما الزهور الشذيّة تغيب باولا سريعاً ولكن هل لك أن تنسى هذا الأريج ؟ ~ الذكرى الوحيدة التي سأحملها معي هي الحبّ الذي أخلفه ورائي وسأبقى متحدة بك بطريقة ما هل تذكرين آخ......more