“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded...

In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...

A simple description of the childhood and youth of the Chilean author Isabel Allende.

"La biografía definitiva hasta la fecha del poeta Pablo Neruda, un conmovedor retrato de una de las figuras más fascinantes e influyentes de la historia latinoamericana. Pocos poetas han sabido reflejar la imaginación del mundo como Pablo Neruda. Tanto en su país natal, Chile, como en toda América Latina y en muchas otras partes del mundo, su nombre y su legado se han convertido prácticamente en sinónimos de movimientos de liberación, así...

Explores the life of writer Pablo Neruda, from his childhood in the Chilean rainforests to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.