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'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' Sunday Times 'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' New York Times Book Review Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world. 'A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging' Independent Online 'A defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us' Daily Telegraph 'Allende's style is impressively Olympian and the payoff is remarkable' Guardian

A spanyol polgárháború végéhez közeledve a fiatal orvos, Víctor Dalmau és a zongorista Roser Bruguera a Pireneusok hegyláncán keresztül, viszontagságos körülmények között menekül Barcelonából. Első állomásuk Franciaország, ahonnan a világhírű chilei költő, Pablo Neruda segítségével a Winnipeg nevű hajón vándorolnak tovább a költő által a tenger karcsú szirmának nevezett dél-amerikai országba, Chilébe. Beilleszkednek a társdalomba, már-már elhiszik, hogy megtalálták a békét, és életük nyugvópontra jutott, amikor Pinochet katonai puccsa után másodszor is emigrációba kényszerülnek, ezúttal Venezuelába. Kalandos körülmények között kerülnek vissza Chilébe, hiszen ahogy a szerző mondja, "ha eleget él az ember, minden kör bezárul". Sodró, megrendítő és felemelő események, nem hétköznapi szereplők kalauzolják végig az olvasót a 20. század Európáján és Dél-Amerikáján. Nincs hely a világon, ahol jobban ismernék a populista önkényuralmak és az ugrásra kész államcsínyek természetét vagy a lélek gyógyulásához fűzött reményt és a szerelem gyógyító erejébe vetett hitet, mint Latin-Amerikában, de még inkább Chilében. És nincs, aki erről érzékenyebben, árnyaltabban és pontosabban tudna mesélni, mint Isabel Allende.

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow'. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world. A masterful work of historical fiction that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.

Významná a obľúbená čilská spisovateľka Isabel Allende prichádza v románe Japonský milenec opäť s farbisto podanou rodinnou ságou, ktorá sa tentoraz odohráva v scenérii kalifornského San Francisca. Majstrovské a čitateľsky príťažlivé rozprávanie autorky svetoznámeho Domu duchov rozvíja príbeh ženy na prahu staroby, ktorá sa v spomienkach na svoju životnú púť dotýka mnohých známych i menej známych historických udalostí 20. storočia. Príbeh lásky medzi svojráznou Almou Belascovou a citlivým japonským záhradníkom Ičimeim vedie čitateľa rôznymi cestami, ktorými sa uberali dejiny od 2. svetovej vojny až podnes.

Aurora del Valle sa musí vyrovnať so zradou milovaného muža a vzoprieť sa hroziacej samote. Rozhodne sa rozlúštiť záhadu svojej minulosti, ktorá sa jej vymazala z pamäti pri šoku, čo utrpela v detstve. Dej románu sa odohráva koncom 19. storočia na pozadí vzrušujúcich udalostí čilských dejín a spája osudy hrdinov knihy Dcéra šťasteny s protagonistami Allendeovej slávneho románu Dom duchov.

Mladá Čiľanka Eliza Sommerová sa šialene zaľúbi do Joaquína Andietu. Ten odíde na sever do Kalifornie spolu s tisícami ďalších nadšencov, ktorí dúfajú, že sa im podarí rýchlo zbohatnúť v čase zlatej horúčky. Eliza čaká dieťa a rozhodne sa, že svojho milenca nájde. Preoblečená v mužských šatách sa ukryje v podpalubí plachetnice a počas nebezpečnej cesty príde o dieťa a takmer aj o život. Zachráni ju čínsky lekár, v ktorom nájde oporu a veľkú životnú istotu.

Poviedková kniha čilskej spisovateľky Isabel Allende je pestrou paletou osudov európskych prisťahovalcov, zbohatlíkov, skorumpovaných úradníkov i indiánov. Zmesou rozprávania o brutálnom násilí, pokrivených medziľudských vzťahoch, ale aj o láske v rozmanitých podobách a premenách. Skazené dievča nadväzuje na najlepšie tradície magického realizmu a prináša vzrušujúce čítanie, na ktoré sa len tak ľahko nezabúda.

**The remarkable novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** Meet the unforgettable Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary and above all, a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. As she shares her stories, she introduces an eccentric cast of characters: the Lebanese emigre who takes her in, her Catholic godmother who believes in saints, a street urchin who grows up to be the leader of the guerrilla struggle, a celebrated trans cabaret star and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will change Eva's life forever. As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende brings to life a complex South American country - the rich, the poor, the sophisticated - in a novel that celebrates the power of imagination and storytelling. Praise for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna: `Vibrant, colourful characters; the ordinary fused with the grotesque; a Latin American setting, tropical this time; vivid, elegant narrative. The narrator, Eva Luna, is herself a story-teller in the Allende tradition' Guardian `An evident affection for words, compassion for the oppressed and the inarticulate, the daring ambition to draw cross-sections of whole societies . . . Allende's work glows' New York Times `Sumptuous . . . a tale that spans forty years and moves from a surreal jungle to a modern-day urban capital where even the most apolitical are driven to risky anti-government activities' Chicago Tribune `Allende rearranges reality with a blend of memories, mysticism and imagination' The Philadelphia Inquirer `A remarkable novel, one in which a cascade of stories tumbled out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human' Washington Post `Magnificent . . . Allende is a prodigious fabulist, weaving extraordinary tales' Publishers Weekly

Irene Beltran is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist - an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing - she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist emigres. They are an inseparable team, and - despite Irene's engagement to an army captain - form a passionate connection. When an assignment leads them to uncover an unspeakable crime, they are determined to reveal the truth in a national overrun by terror and violence. Together they will risk everything for justice - and ultimately to embrace the passion that binds them. Praise for Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows: `[Allende] can just as deftly depict loving tenderness as convey the high fire of eroticism. And when you've successfully mingled sex and politics with a noble cause, how can you go wrong? New York Times Book Review `Allende is a born storyteller' Chicago Tribune `The people in Of Love and Shadows are real, their triumphs and defeats are so faithful to the truth of human existence, that we see the world in miniature. This is precisely what fiction should do' Washington Post `We are by turns enchanted and entertained . . . Allende has married the world of magic and political evil most credibly' LA Times Book Review

Isabel Allende nepochybne patrí medzi najvýznamnejšie súčasné po španielsky píšuce spisovateľky. Literárna kritika ju označuje za pokračovateľku Márquezovho magického realizmu, je nositeľkou americkej literárnej ceny Harolda Washingtona za mimoriadny literárny prínos. Román Dom duchov je rozvetvenou ságou latinsko-americkej rodiny, prežívajúcej svoje víťazstvá i pády na pozadí pohnutých spoločenských udalostí, v imaginatívnej krajine plnej vulkánov a častých hurikánov, prírodných i ľudských katastrof. Je to zároveň nádherný príbeh ženy plnej prirodzenej odvahy a sily. Podľa knihy bol nakrútený oceňovaný film, román sa zaradil medzi najúspešnejšie literárne diela 20. storočia.

From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the older woman and her grandson, Seth, at Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

The author of `The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what's happened, Maya's life has turned into one of drug addiction and crime. Things go from bad to worse as Maya disappears into the criminal underworld. To save her from her old associates, Nini sends Maya to a remote island off the coast of Chile. Safe amongst her new neighbours, Maya feels compelled to write her story and slowly she begins to heal. But can she learn to live with her scars, and will her past ever catch up with her?

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue now known as Haiti Tété is the product of violent union between an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage . When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against th e merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When bloody revolution arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, Tété fin ally forges a new life but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanit y though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.

La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrará a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegración. Atrapados en unas dramáticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una época que abarca gran parte del siglo XX. Con impecable pulso narrativo y gran lucidez histórica, Isabel Allende ha creado un fresco en el que conviven lo cotidiano con lo maravilloso, el amor con la revolución y los ideales personales con la dura realidad política.

Ki ne ismerné a mozikból Zorro kalandjait? A hőst, aki nyaktörő mutatványaival a legreménytelenebb helyzetekből is mindig megmenekül? Isabel Allende a legendás Diego De La Vega ifjúkorát meséli el, hogyan lett a jómódú kaliforniai fiúból az igazság bajnoka, a szegények oltalmazója. Kalandjain keresztül betekintést nyerünk a 19. századi Spanyolországnak és amerikai gyarmatának sokszínű világába, társadalmi szokásaiba. Mindenekelőtt azonban élvezhetjük a furfangos ifjú hajmeresztő hőstetteit. S hogy figyelmünk egy percre se lankadjon, az írónő megalkotta az írónő két segédjének figuráját, így aztán már nem egy, hanem három álarcos lovag kápráztatja el leleményeivel az olvasót

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, and her autobiographical works include the deeply moving 'Paula' -- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma -- and the fascinating 'My Invented Country', which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in 'The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life.' The Sum of the Days', based on Allende's own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.