When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.
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Paula is a soul-baring memoir one reads without drawing a breath, like a novel of suspense. The point of departure for these moving pages is a tragic personal experience. In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and shortly thereafter fell into a coma. During hours in the hospital, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious daughter. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes, and we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. Chile, Allende's native land, comes alive as well, with the turbulent history of the military coup of 1973, the following dictatorship and her family's years of exile.
As an exorcism of death, in these pages Isabel Allende explores the past and questions the gods. The result is a magical book that carries the reader from tears to laughter, from terror to sensuality and wisdom. Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart of the courageous and estimable woman who created The House of the Spirits.
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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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