“Allende turns the joyous preparation and consumption of fine food into an erotic catalyst.”
—New York Times Book Review
THE INFINITE PLAN
Selling more than 65,000 copies and topping bestseller lists around the world, The Infinite Plan tells the engrossing story of one man’s quest for love and for his soul. Gregory Reeves is the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family’s lot, never questioning the validity of his father’s homespun philosophy of life—the Infinite Plan. But, as manhood approaches, he finds himself possessed by a yearning to escape. Hankering after worldly wealth, he longs to break away from the barrio, the teeming Hispanic ghetto of downtown Los Angeles where his family has finally settled. Gregory’s quest, so different from his father’s, takes him first to law school at Berkeley, next to the killing fields of Vietnam, then into a headlong (and hedonistic) pursuit of the American Dream.
“Spellbinding. . . . Allende has caught the mood of our spiritually troubled times with uncanny precision and insight.”
—Miami Herald
MY INVENTED COUNTRY: A MEMOIR
Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit; and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth an overdue acknowledgment that Allende had indeed left home. My Invented Country, mimicking the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance between past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants and to all of us who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions.
“[T]he book gets my undivided attention when it expounds on the relationship of the author to that country of hers, invented, imaginary, fictional, to the story of her family, which is itself invented memory, and to her vocation as a narrator.”
—Los Angeles Times
PAULA: A MEMOIR
With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma, Paula is the colorful story of Allende’s life—from her early years in her native Chile, through the turbulent military coup of 1973, to the subsequent dictatorship and her family’s years of exile. In the telling, bizarre ancestors reveal themselves, delightful and bitter childhood memories surface, enthralling anecdotes of youthful years are narrated, and intimate secrets are softly whispered.
In an exorcism of death and a celebration of life, Isabel Allende explores the past, questions the gods, and creates a magical book that carries the reader from tears to laughter, from terror to sensuality to wisdom. In Paula, readers will come to understand that the miraculous world of her novels is the world Isabel Allende inhabits—it is her enchanted reality.
“Spellbinding. . . . In flawlessly rich prose [Allende] shares with us her most intimate feelings.”
—Washington Post Book World
The Jaguar and Eagle Trilogy (for children)
CITY OF THE BEASTS
City of the Beasts is Isabel Allende’s first novel for children—an eco-thriller in which fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team—including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor—is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia’s spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.
“Allende’s writing is so vivid we hear the sounds, see the bright birds, smell and even taste the soft fruit.”
—The Times (London)
KINGDOM OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
Not many months have passed since teenager Alexander Cold followed his bold grandmother into the heart of the Amazon to uncover its legendary Beast. This time, reporter Kate Cold escorts her grandson and his closest friend, Nadia, along with the photographers from International Geographic on a journey to another remote niche of the world, in the Himalayas. The team’s task is to locate its fabled golden dragon, a sacred statue and priceless oracle that can foretell the future of the kingdom.
In their scramble to reach the statue before it is destroyed by the greed of an outsider, Alexander and Nadia must use the transcendent power of their totemic animal spirits—Jaguar and Eagle. With the aid of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors, Alexander and Nadia fight to protect the holy rule of the golden dragon.
“Imagining this utopian land and animating Buddhist beliefs is clearly fun for Allende, and her joy translates onto the page.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
FOREST OF THE PYGMIES
Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head—with Nadia Santos and the magazine’s photography crew—to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches their camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlist the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoubé. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands.
“[C]aptures the romance of exotic travel. . . . [H]as at least two things Allende’s adult fiction is known for: passion and politics.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
INÉS OF MY SOUL
In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Inés Suárez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As Inés makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Together the lovers will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage war against the indigenous Chileans—a bloody struggle that will change Inés and Valdivia forever, inexorably pulling each of them toward separate destinies.
Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope that masterfully dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez’s life, crafting them into a novel rich with the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.
“This is one work Allende fans should not miss. . . . Allende’s imagination . . . delivers the enchantment.”
—Miami Herald
Three Allende titles are available in Spanish only, from Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers: Cuentos de Eva Luna, De Amor y de Sombra, and La Casa de los Espíritus.
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Praise
“Gripping. . . . Tells the story of her daughter’s death in a moving but unsentimental way . . . transforming an otherwise devastating experience.”
> —Alicia Borinsky, Ms. magazine
“Has all the lyrical intensity—even on occasion, the profound joy—that made her first novel, The House of the Spirits, so exciting.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Isabel recounts a life of color and sweep. . . . An entertaining, glamorous book.”
—Shirley Abbott, Boston Sunday Globe
“This true story of Allende’s life is even more wonderful, spirited and humorous than its imaginary rendition in her first novel.”
—San Francisco Examiner
“A non-fiction masterpiece . . . Paula is a breathtaking tour de force.”
—Buffalo News
“Paula comes to us in a shimmeringly beautiful translation by Margaret Sayers Peden. There is not a page in it without something wonderful.”
—St. Petersburg Times
Copyright
Lines from “A Home in Dark Grass” (page v), from The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1964 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of the author and HarperCollins Publishers.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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PAULA. Copyright © 1994 by Isabel Allende. Translation copyright © 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Harper Perennial edition published 1996, reissued in 2008 and 2013.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Allende, Isabel.
[Paula, English]
Paula / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-017253-4
EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062254405
1. Allende, Isabel—Family. 2. Allende family. 3. Authors, Chilean—20th century—Family relationships. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.
PQ8098.1.L54Z4713 1995
863—dc20
[B]
95-2452
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ISBN 978-0-06-156490-1 (reissue)
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