Sunday, April 5th • 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST
Isabel Allende
in conversation with Don George
Dear Friends,
Don and I were delighted that so many people registered to watch our video conversation. We enjoyed being “together” with each other and with all of you.
I hope you are finding time to read.
Here are a few books that I’ve been reading lately. I hope you’ll enjoy them too.
Thank you for supporting each other and Book Passage.
As the Queen Elizabeth II said last night, “We will meet again.”
–Isabel
Below, please find links to purchase all of the books mentioned by Isabel in the livestream, as well as a selection of her own books.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Award for Biography
From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time.
Rose Pastor$16.99ISBN: 9780316154895Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Back Bay Books - March 5th, 2019In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend.
"All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death."
$27.99ISBN: 9780062963673Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper - September 24th, 2019Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
$16.95ISBN: 9780307389732Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - October 5th, 2007"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek
The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez$28.00ISBN: 9780399590597Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: One World - September 24th, 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
$28.00ISBN: 9781984820150Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Ballantine Books - January 21st, 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.
$17.00ISBN: 9781984899170Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - April 7th, 2020Un viaje a través de la historia del siglo XX de la mano de unos personajes inolvidables que descubrirán que en una sola vida caben muchas vidas y que, a veces, lo difícil no es huir sino volver.
$17.00ISBN: 9781501178146Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - September 4th, 2018New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).
During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a l$17.00ISBN: 9780525436577Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - September 4th, 2018Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un m
$17.00ISBN: 9781501116995Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - July 5th, 2016From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, “a magical and sweeping” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II.
In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to$17.00ISBN: 9781101971642Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - July 5th, 2016“A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun as&iacut
$16.00ISBN: 9780345806017Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - November 5th, 2013Atrévete a amar.
ISBN: 9780062291424Availability: BackorderedPublished: Harper Perennial - January 27th, 2015Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial k
$15.95ISBN: 9781101910535Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - January 6th, 2015Tal como predijo la astróloga más reputada de San Francisco, una oleada de crímenes comienza a sacudir la ciudad. En la investigación sobre los asesinatos, el inspector Bob Martín recibirá la ayuda inesperada de un grupo de internautas especializados en juegos de rol, Ripper.
$15.99ISBN: 9780062105639Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - April 22nd, 2014A startling novel of suspense and resilience from New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.
$15.95ISBN: 9780307947956Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - June 5th, 2012Un pasado persiguiéndola. Un futuro aún por construir. Y un cuaderno para escribir toda una vida.
ISBN: 9780061988257Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Harper Perennial - April 26th, 2011“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”
— Los Angeles Times$16.95ISBN: 9780307476050Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - August 31st, 2010La azarosa historia de una esclava en el Santo Domingo del siglo XVIII que logrará librarse de los estigmas que la sociedad le ha impuesto para conseguir la libertad.
ISBN: 9780061551840Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Harper Perennial - January 6th, 2009Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.
ISBN: 9780525433613Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - July 11th, 2017En La suma de los días, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espíritu; hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, éxitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de insp
$17.99ISBN: 9780063021754Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: HarperVia - June 30th, 2020“Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World.”— Newsweek
ISBN: 9780525433569Availability: BackorderedPublished: Vintage Espanol - May 2nd, 2017Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeña que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlántico. Anhela también vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI.
$14.99ISBN: 9780061825101Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - November 3rd, 2009In The Forest of the Pygmies, the final book in Isabel Allende’s page-turning adventure trilogy, young Alexander Cold, his friend Nadia Santos, and his grandmother Kate Cold go on assignment to Africa, where they discover a hidden world of corruption and slavery.
$14.99ISBN: 9780061825125Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - November 3rd, 2009Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, the second book of Isabel Allende’s page-turning adventure trilogy, follows Alexander Cold, his grandmother, and his irrepressible friend Nadia Santos into a forbidden kingdom in the Himalayas to find the legendary statue of the Golden Dragon.
$20.00ISBN: 9780525433637Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - September 5th, 2017La pluma mágica de Allende nos invita a conocer, en esta preciosa trilogía de aventuras, realismo mágico y naturaleza, a Alexander Cold, un muchacho americano de quince años; a su abuela Kate, una reportera de viajes; y a Nadia Santos, una compañera de aventuras muy especial.
$15.99ISBN: 9780063021723Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: HarperVia - September 29th, 2020“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”—Entertainment Weekly
ISBN: 9780525436027Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - July 11th, 2017“Un libro que capta mi entera atención al exponer la relación de la autora con ese país suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria in-ventada, con su vocación de escritora”. —Jorge Edwards
$16.99ISBN: 9780061991530Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - May 11th, 2010"Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.”
—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldISBN: 9780525433521Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - March 7th, 2017En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su época, pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas.
$18.99ISBN: 9780061565335Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - June 10th, 2008From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
ISBN: 9780525433514Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - March 7th, 2017Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año de la fiebre del oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte dispuesto a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo.
ISBN: 9780060930172Availability: BackorderedPublished: HarperVia - April 7th, 1999New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore.
Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke t
$17.95ISBN: 9780525436010Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - November 19th, 2019“Me arrepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana, ya que la sexualidad es un componente de la buena salud, inspira la creación y es parte del camino del alma... Por desgracia, me demoré treinta años en descubrirlo”.
$16.99ISBN: 9780061564901Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - May 7th, 2013Newly Reissued
New York Times Bestselling Author
“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”
—Los Angeles TimesISBN: 9780525433507Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - January 10th, 2017Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de sí misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara el dramático trance.
ISBN: 9780061976827Availability: Special OrderPublished: Harper Perennial - April 27th, 2010“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”
— Boston Globe“Allende is a genius.”
— Los Angeles Times Book ReviewISBN: 9780525433583Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - May 2nd, 2017Ésta es la historia de Gregory Reeves, un hombre que sobrevive en el difícil mundo de los hispanos de California. Gregory quiere llevar a la práctica el peculiar “plan infinito” que se trazó a sí mismo en su infancia.
$16.99ISBN: 9781501117138Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016Told in the voice of Isabel Allende’s beloved character Eva Luna, a “distinctive, powerful, and haunting” (Los Angeles Times) collection of short fiction by one of the most iconic and acclaimed writers of our time.
Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love.ISBN: 9780525433620Availability: Special OrderPublished: Vintage Espanol - July 11th, 2017Eva Luna era una cascada de cuentos contados a través de otros cuentos. Pero el caudal estaba lejos de haberse agotado. En la cama con su amante, Eva Luna es requerida por éste para que le cuente un cuento “que jamás haya contado antes”.
$18.00ISBN: 9781501117084Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016“A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.
Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and worki$16.00ISBN: 9780525433491Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage Espanol - January 10th, 2017En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación. La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nostálgico álter ego de la autora, que se llama a sí misma "ladrona de historias" precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo.
$16.00ISBN: 9781501117046Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - March 29th, 2016This 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.$18.00ISBN: 9781501117015Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - December 15th, 2015“Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America.” —The New York Times Book Review
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