Dream The End » Isabel Allende https://dreamtheend.com Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Isabel Allende – Bio https://dreamtheend.com/?p=3836 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=3836#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:43:41 +0000 tania http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=3836 Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Peru. She has written 19 books, received 12 international honorary doctorates, won 50 awards in more than 15 countries, and sold more than 57 million books. She created The Isabel Allende Foundation to empower women and girls worldwide in 1992. Some of her most famous novels include “The House of the Spirits” and “City of Beasts”. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004 and received Chile’s National Literature Prize in 2010. She now lives in California with her husband.

Words first appeared in “The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus)” published in 1985 by Knopf. Translated by Magda Bogin.

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]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=3836 0 Excerpt from “The House of The Spirits (La Casa De Los Espírtus)” (1982) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=3633 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=3633#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:06:32 +0000 tania http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=3633 Until that day they had never given a name to the eccentricities of their youngest daughter, nor had it ever crossed their minds to ascribe them to satanic influence. Clara’s strangeness was simply an attribute of their youngest daughter, like Luis’s limp or Rosa’s beauty. The child’s mental powers bothered no one and produced no great disorder; they almost always surfaced in matters of minor importance and within the strict confines of their home. It was true there had been times, just as they were about to sit down to dinner and everyone was in the large dining room, seating according to dignity and position, when the saltcellar would suddenly begin to shake and move among the plates and goblets without any visible source of energy or sign of illusionist’s trick. Nívea would pull Clara’s braids and that would be enough to wake her daughter from her mad distraction and return the saltcellar to immobility… They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter’s prophecies. She would announce earthquakes in advance, which was quite useful in the country of catastrophes, for it gave them a chance to lock up the good dishes and place their slippers within reach in case they had to run out in the middle of the night.

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