Eine Familiensage des 20. Jahrhunderts, in der die wechselhafte Geschichte des chilenischen Patriarchen Esteban Trueba und der Frauen seines Hauses erzhlt wird. Der Erfolg dieses Buches ist dem hinreienden Erzhltemperament Isabel Allendes zu verdanken: Souvern, mit Phantasie und Witz, mit Zrtlichkeit und Ironie malt die Autorin das groe, bunte Tableau einer Familie ber vier Generationen hinweg.

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...

'Daughter of Fortune' is set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the 19th century. English foundling Eliza Sommers becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair.

'Portrait in Sepia' is both a historical novel set at the end of the 19th century in Chile and a family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels.

An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque -- one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story which will appeal to all ages Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate -- a fearless reporter with blue eyes 'as sharp as daggers' points'. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than...

The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers. It is based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, which provides both a political and geographical framework of Chile.

From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax.

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric.

In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, 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.

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s.