Best-selling author Isabel ... a Spanish speaking schoolteacher who marries her pregnant mother, a novice Catholic nun abandoned after a romance with a wealthy Chilean aristocrat. Although Allende ...

It’s a story likely to be appreciated by the legions of Allende fans who have ensured she’s considered the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author. Although the Chilean-American ...

Isabel Allende often finds thematic inspiration in her lived experience of revolution. She fled political persecution in Chile after a coup in 1973 deposed President Salvador Allende, her father ...

Best-selling author Isabel Allende has been beloved for decades by millions of passionately loyal readers for her strong female protagonists and epic story lines stretching across the Americas.

FICTION My Name is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende Bloomsbury ... he as the primary reporter (though he doesn’t speak Spanish) and she, who does, as the background essayist.