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| Original Title: | Paula |
| ISBN: | 849759388X (ISBN13: 9788497593885) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
Isabel Allende
Pasta blanda | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.12 | 30079 Users | 1996 Reviews
Particularize Containing Books Paula
| Title | : | Paula |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Pasta blanda |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 2004 by Nuevas Ediciones de Bolsillo (first published October 1994) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Biography Memoir. Magical Realism |
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Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de sí misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara el dramático trance. El resultado se convirtió en un autorretrato de insólita emotividad y en una exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.Rating Containing Books Paula
Ratings: 4.12 From 30079 Users | 1996 ReviewsRate Containing Books Paula
Isabel Allende has long been my favorite author since I read her House of the Spirits for the first time nearly twenty years ago. Since then, I have reread her opus three times, as well as a number of her novels and memoir The Sum of Our Days. Until now, however, I had been avoiding her first memoir Paula, which details the year and a half of her life where she dealt with her daughter's long illness that eventually lead to her death. Needing a book from the 1990s for my women's 20th centuryPaula by Isabel Allende is an autobiographical account of her family's experiences in Chile, writing feverishly at the bedside of her daughter, Paula, as she lay in a coma from a genetic neurological disease in Barcelona, Spain. At first it was written for Paula so that she will not be lost or afraid when she awoke; then as it became clearer that this wouldn't happen, Allende continued to write as a cathartic of the time her family was driven from their home in Chile following the military coup
"What do you want us to learn, Paula? After reading up to her closing lines: Godspeed, Paula, woman. Welcome, Paula, spirit on page 330 of this amazing 1995-published memoir, still the question above is the one that reverberates inside my head. This is one of the questions the 49-y/o Chilean-American novelist, Isabel Allende asked her 29-y/o comatose daughter, Paula Frias Allende.The reason is Bhang. My 29-y/o officemate who is currently comatose right after giving birth to a healthy baby boy
Isabel Allende wrote that her memoir was published despite reservations from her agents and some editors who felt that the topic, plus the fact that she had exposed herself to the "public gaze without holding anything back," could harm her. Thank goodness she went ahead with it.Part of what makes this book so beautiful is the tone: she wrote it as a letter to her daughter who was lying in a coma in Madrid, Spain. Letter writing had been going on for years in this family. Isabel usually wrote a
I really enjoyed the first part of this book, as it gives a great insight into Isabel Allende and her childhood and her family life in Chile which I found so interesting, This books is really about Allende's daughter Paula and her illness which I feel was very badly explained, I had to google Paula's condition to understand it as it was not very clear from the book. I also felt that Paul's life was discussed very little and I would have like to have learned more about Paula as a person. This is
This book has got to be one of the most heartfelt and soulful books I have ever read. Although the book is entitled Paula, it is very much about Isabel, her life and her relationship with her daughter. Paula. Paula has become very sick, went into a coma and that's where the book starts. The writing and the feelings of Isabelle are real, raw and relatable. I never realized the history of her home country, Chile and the devastating time of the dictatorship. I found her life's story to be on an
Maybe a 3.5 stars rating? Not sure.The idea behind this book is dramatic and beautiful: Isabel Allende's daughter Paula is sick, gets admitted to the hospital, slips into a coma and eventually dies. What would the storyteller and writer Isabel Allende do at her daughter's bedside for over a year? She would talk to her unconscious daughter, and would write her all the memories she has about her own life and family history to pass the cold waiting hours until Paula wakes up. That manuscript would
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