The Infinite Plan, Isabel Allende
The Infinite Plan, Isabel Allende
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The Infinite Plan
A Novel

Author: Isabel Allende

Narrator: Isabel Allende, Luis Moreno

Unabridged: 16 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/18/2020


Synopsis

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”—Boston GlobeAn enthralling tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to contend with the pain and deprivation that shaped him.Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory’s life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating the past can he see the way to his future.  

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

Goodreads review by Ahmad

الحياة الخطة اللانهائية ندور في فلكها وندور وندور ولا ندري متى نتوقف على فراش الموت تكشتف أنها لم تتوقف أبدا ولن تتوقف ربما أكثر من فهم الحياة في الرواية هي عائلة بيدرو موراليس.. الأب وزوجته إنما كولادا وكارمن وقتيل فيتنام خوان خوسيه كلهم كان يفعل الشئ الأهم في الحياة.. العمل والعمل والعمل.. ليس من أجل العمل فق......more

Goodreads review by Emir

De momento, mi segunda novela favorita de Allende, después de La casa de los espíritus. La reseña está subida ya a mi canal: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Nada

"في الليلةِ التي تعارفنا فيها، طلبتِ مني أن أحكي لكِ حياتي، حذرتكِ، إنّها طويلة.. قلتِ: لا همّ، لديّ مُتّسعٌ كبيرٌ من الوقت.." ............... وجدتُ هذه الرواية مختلفة عمّا قرأته لإيزابيل اللندي لأنها هنا تروي بلسانِ رجل، وليام زوجها الثاني.. من أراد أن يستمتع بروايات ايزا عليه أن يقرأ سيرتها الذاتية،......more