Isabel Allende

The Wind Knows My Name

By Frances Riddle (trans.) - By Isabel Allende - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

In her compassionate novel, Allende draws powerful parallels between child migrants in 1938 Austria and at America’s southern border in 2019, evoking the tragic ...Read Review

Violeta

By Isabel Allende - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

One-hundred-year-old Violeta writes her story beginning with her birth in 1920 during the Spanish flu pandemic up to her 2020 death during the current pandemic. ...Read Review

A Long Petal of the Sea

By Isabel Allende - By Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Allende’s fluidly written saga conveys her deep familiarity with the events she depicts, and her intent to illustrate their human impact in ...Read Review

The Japanese Lover

By Amanda Hopkinson (trans.) - By Isabel Allende - By Nick Caistor (trans.) - Published 2015

Genres:

Literary

“We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or ...Read Review

Island Beneath the Sea

By Isabel Allende - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Isabel Allende is at the top of her game in Island Beneath the Sea, a seductive, sprawling historical novel set in Haiti and ...Read Review

Inés of My Soul

By Isabel Allende - By Margaret Sayers Peden - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Doña Inés Suárez tells the epic story of her life and the conquest of Chile in this fictional biography. Iné...Read Review

Zorro

By Isabel Allende - Published 2005

Genres:

Adventure

Though adventure plays a large part, this is as much a tale of how Diego de la Vega evolved into The Fox as ...Read Review