Showing posts with label Isabel Allende. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isabel Allende. Show all posts

Friday, 22 December 2017

The House of the Spirits


Judul : The House of the Spirits
Penulis : Isabel Allende
Tebal : 448 halaman
Penerbit : Dial Press Trade Paperback

Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Portrait in Sepia


Judul : Portrait in Sepia
Penulis : Isabel Allende
Tebal : 336 halaman
Penerbit : Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. 

Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

Saturday, 1 November 2014

Daughter of Fortune


Judul : Daughter of Fortune
Penulis : Isabel Allende
Tebal : 419 halaman
Penerbit : Harper Perennial

When the rootless foundling Eliza Sommers, at the age of sixteen, falls for a striking young revolutionary called Joaquin Andieta it sets her life on a course of travels and adventures that will take her far away from her native Chile and the Enlgish household where she ahs been raised. In the frenzy of the American gold rush Andieta disappears. Eliza, desperate with love and determined to find him, stows away on a ship packed with sailors, adventurers, whores and a gentle Chinese doctor, bound for the harsh frontier town of San Fransisco.