Isabel Allende

"Isabel Allende zu lesen heißt den Duft Lateinamerikas zu riechen, eine Großfamilie kennen zu lernen und mit skurrilen Geschichten überhäuft zu werden . Wer etwas über Geschichte und Politik Chiles, über die Menschen des Landes erfahren möchte und nicht zuletzt über Allendes außergewöhnliche Familie: Die Autorin erzählt es . Mit so viel Aufrichtigkeit, Sprachwitz, Humor und Ironie, daß es eine Freude ist." Kölner Stadtanzeiger Charmant und schwungvoll erzählt Isabel Allende von ihrer Heimat, jenem langgestreckten Land am Rand der Welt, das sie nach dem Militärputsch 1973 verlassen mußte. Ausgehend von ihrer eigenen Geschichte und der ihrer Familie schreibt sie vom Stolz, von der Großzügigkeit und der Borniertheit ihrer Landsleute, von Machos und mutigen Frauen, von all dem, was ihr Chile liebenswert und unausstehlich macht - vor allem aber davon, was es bedeutet, ein Land zu verlieren und ein Zuhause zu finden.

Die magische Trilogie von Isabel Allende in einer einmaligen Sonderausgabe: Die Stadt der wilden Götter: Für den 15jährigen Alex Cold ändert sich plötzlich das ganze Leben. Seine Mutter ist schwer krank und muss für längere Zeit ins Krankenhaus. Da sein Vater sie begleiten möchte, wird Alex zu seiner höchst sonderbaren Großmutter, der Reisereporterin Kate Cold, geschickt. Die nimmt ihn kurzerhand mit auf eine Expedition ins Herz des Amazonasgebietes. Eine internationale Forschergruppe soll dort nach einem sagenumwobenen riesenhaften Wesen suchen. Alex lernt auf dieser Reise nicht nur viel über die geheimnisvolle, von Geistern und Dämonen bevölkerte Welt der Indianer, sondern auch viel über sich selbst, seine Stärken und Schwächen. Im Reich des goldenen Drachen gibt es ein neues Abenteuer für Alex und Nadia: In der Bergwelt des Himalaya sind sie den Räubern einer goldenen Drachenstatue auf der Spur. Sie diente seit Urzeiten den Königen als Orakel. Niemand weiß, wer den unheimlichen Skorpionkriegern das Versteck verraten hat. Werden Alex und Nadia es herausfinden? Im Bann der Masken: Tief im afrikanischen Dschungel herrscht ein verbrecherischer König und versklavt das uralte Volk der Pygmäen. Mit allen Teufeln im Bunde scheint er unbesiegbar - doch Nadia und Alex haben viele Helfer: Die Pygmäen selbst, die Geister der guten Ahnen und schließlich die rechtmäßige Königin. Laufzeit ca. 1.589 Minuten Vollständige Lesung ab 12 Jahren Sprecher: Marc Oliver Schulze, Andreas Fröhlich

Bestselling author Isabel Allendeâ??s first adult novel since â??Portrait in Sepiaâ?? â?? beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric.

From one of the world�s best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax.

Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation's history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people's joys and anguishes wholly our own. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

From an internationally acclaimed author, this is a magical, fascinating book exploring the intimate relationship between food and sex.

This life story of Isabel Allende is based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, which provides both a political and geographical framework of Chile.

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate - a fearless reporter with blue eyes 'as sharp as daggers' points'. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team - including a local guide and his daughter Nadia, with her wild, curly hair and skin the colour of honey - in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals only as 'the Beast', only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. In a novel rich in adventure, magic and spirit, internationally-celebrated novelist Isabel Allende takes readers of all ages on a voyage of discovery and wonder, deep into the heart of the Amazon. 'A magical storyteller' Daily Mail 'Allende's writing is so vivid we hear the sounds, see the bright birds, smell and even taste the soft fruit.' The Times

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

El Plan Infinito, de la celebrada escritora latinoamericana Isabel Allende, es su primera novela situada en los Estados Unidos y con personajes nortemamericanos. Es la hipnozitizante y conmovedora saga de un hombre que, durante los largos a os de su juventud y madurez, busca amor y aceptaci n. Allende traza la pobreza y abandono de la ni ez de su protagonista, la persecuzion de las pandillas de un barrio de Los Angeles, el horror de sus experiencias en Vietnam, su vida fren tica como abagodo en San Francisco---una serie de frustraciones que por fin se resuelven en acogida y redenci n.

Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the 19th century, a tale of how Eliza Sommers becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic, but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, she follows him.

Like Diane Ackerman''s bestselling book, The Natural History of the Senses, Allende's book is a very personal blend of imagination, memory and the senses.aIn Aphrodite, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly to evoke the pleasures of food and sex. Under the aegis of the goddess of love, Allende offers us a joyful book, imaginative and fresh, a feast of facts and tales about sensual delight with a generous helping of personal narrative.aWith Aphrodite, Allende becomes an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and of course, love. You'll find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and medieval literature, paintings, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of food and its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of alcoholic beverages, and a section on the language of flowers.aAllende's ode to sensuality and erotic pleasure, the marriage of sex and food, works-thanks to her storytelling ability and naughty sense of fun.

The poems in this collection by critically-acclaimed Chilean poet, editor and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin reflect her deep-rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosin creates a world where everything touches the sea and is, in turn, touched by it -- a simple world where when her son is born she asks for 'a flower, a light, a glass of water'. From the child who 'discovers the sky' in water to the young couple who promised to be 'a single branch of water, one single stream', to the old women 'making their way toward the sea...to dissolve in the beat of the waves', Agosin fills her world with people who can 'carry the scents of the river and the sign of the water'. Bilingual edition -- text in both English and Spanish.

Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, 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, Gregory finds himself increasingly 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 the killing fields of Vietnam, and thence to law school at Berkeley from where he pitches headlong into a hedonistic pursuit of the American Dream…