Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. When her uncle, Chilean President Salvador Allende, was assassinated in 1973, she fled with her husband and children to Venezuela. Allende has written more than a dozen magical realist novels, including The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, as well as several memoirs. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received Chile's National Literature Prize, a U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Isabel Allende
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In Giving I Connect With Others
This I Believe
Isabel Allende; read by the author; Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds.
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
Novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on how her daughter's life--and death--taught her that "In Giving I Connect With Others"
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