Paula - Softcover

383pp , About the author :: Isabel Allende (Lima, Peru , August 2, 1942 ) is a Chilean -selling writer and national prize for literature 2010 ... He has sold over 51 million copies and his work has been translated into more than 27 languages . It has been regarded as the writer most widely read Spanish language world.Also was deputy director of the magazine Mampato between 1973 and 1974 ... In 1958 he returned to Chile and was reunited with Miguel Frias , whom he married in 1962 . in Santiago de Chile in 1963 was born his daughter Paula . Returning to Chile in 1966 , his son Nicholas was born. He lived in Venezuela from 1974 to 1988. The constant journeys he undertook promoting his books made her marriage to Frías to term . She divorced her husband , Willie Gordon married on July 7, 1988 in San Francisco. He has lived in usa since 1988 and in 2003 he was granted US citizenship ... Daughter of Chilean diplomat Tomás Allende Pesce and Francisca Llona , was born in Lima while his father was serving as ambassador to Chile in Peru. His father was a cousin of Salvador Allende , president of Chile between 1970-1973 (in some publications are misquotes as brothers ) .. Isabel Allende is Spanish ( specifically, Basque ) descent by father and Portuguese and Spanish descent ( Basque and Spanish ) mother's side ... her parents separated in 1945 , and his mother returned to Chile with her and her two brothers , where he lived until 1946 ... Between 1953 and 1958 , his family lived on in Bolivia and Beirut ( Lebanon) . In Bolivia he attended an American school in Beirut and studied in an English private ordinary school ... In the literary field , confesses that when you begin typing it creates a place , a time and the characters and the story are giving themselves , ie does not have an initial plan with all actions. Several of his books have been born of cards or personal reflections ; The House of the Spirits and Paula, are examples of this. Composed Paula as a tribute to his