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In December 1991, Allende’s daughter Paula, aged 28 fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families – a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story.
This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist Isabel Allende spent in the corridors of a Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside her daughter Paula's bed during the summer and autumn of 1992. Faced with the loss of her child, Isabel Allende turned to storytelling, to sustain her own spirit and to convey to her daughter the will to wake up, to survive. The story she tells is that of her own life, her family history and the tragedy of her nation, Chile, in the years leading up to Pinochet's brutal military coup.
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'Allende's best work to date...she has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity.' New York Times
'Allende's writing is so vivid we smell the countryside, hear the sounds, see the bright birds, smell and even taste the soft fruit. Moving through Paula's last days, we enter that world, and share it, gladly, sadly, gratefully, and ultimately changed by the very reading of it.' Julia Neuberger, The Times
'This is a tender, moving and vivid record of a mother's agony at the bedside of her daughter. “Paula” begins as a long letter as a way of giving her back the life that is ebbing away...the result is a mesmerizing story. In flawlessly rich prose Allende shares with us her most intimate feelings...an emotionally charged, spellbinding memoir.' Washington Post
'Allende brings the natural storytelling power so evident in her novels to this courageous testament. She shares her personal tragedy with a warmth and passion that make “Paula” exceptional.' Sunday Express
In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula fell gravely ill and sank into a coma.
'Allende's best work to date... she has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity.'
NEW YORK TIMES
'Allende's writing is so vivid we smell the countryside, hear the sounds, see the bright birds, smell and even taste the soft fruit. Moving through Paula's last days, we enter that world, and share it, gladly, sadly, greatly, and ultimately changed by the very reading of it.'
JULIA NEUBERGER, 'The Times'
'This is a tender , moving and vivid record of a mother's agony at the bedside of her daughter. 'Paula' begins as a long letter as a way of giving her back the life that is ebbing away... the result is a mesmerising story. In flawlessly rich prose Allende shares with us her most intimate feelings... an emotionally charged, spellbinding memoir.'
GABRIELLA DE FERRARI, 'Washington Post'
'Allende brings the natural storytelling power so evident in her novels to this courageous testament. She shares her personal tragedy with a warmth and passion that make 'Paula' exceptional.'
CLARE BRISTOW, 'Sunday Express'
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1995
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- ISBN 13 9780006550327
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula, aged 28, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. 'Paula is more than a memoir. It is a tender, moving and vivid record of a mother's agony at the bedside of her daughter. Paula begins as a long letter as a way of giving her back the life that is ebbing away. the result is a mesmerizing story. In flawlessly rich prose Allende shares with us her most intimate feelings. an emotionally charged, spellbinding memoir.' - Washington Post 'Paula is full of the same portentous dreams and friendly ghosts, the same unlikely events that make Allende's fiction so delightful. This true story of Allende's life is even more wonderful, spirited and humorous than its imaginary rendition in her first novel, The House of Spirits.' - San Francisco Examiner 'A beautiful and heartrending memoir. Allende is a born story teller. quite wonderful.' - Los Angeles Times 'If the ferocity of a mother's love, the use of the writer's art, the experience of mystical transcendence could ever bring a dying child back to life, this would have done it. Allende somehow inspires and uplifts. once again, she cracks open the novelist's door to a houseful of vivid and colourful characters, as memorable as nay she has portrayed.' - San Francisco Chronicle. 330 pages. Seller Inventory # 1444053
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