When her beloved grandfather lay dying she wrote him a letter that became her first, and most successful, novel, "The House of the Spirits." Grieving for Chile under Pinochet, she wrote "Of Love and Shadows." As her first marriage collapsed, she invented the ebullient, upbeat heroine of "Eva Luna."īut when her 27-year-old daughter, Paula, fell ill in December 1991 with a hereditary metabolic disorder known as porphyria and quickly lapsed into a coma, the writer's courage failed her.
"ALL sorrows can be borne," Isak Dinesen once said, "if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." That approach worked well for Isabel Allende - until lately. The story she tells is that of her own life, her family history and the tragedy of her nation, Chile, in the years leading up to Pinochet's brutal military coup.īorn in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of nine novels, including Inès of My Soul,Daughter of Fortune, andPortrait in Sepia.She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels.Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents.In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.PAULA By Isabel Allende. Faced with the loss of her child, Isabel Allende turned to storytelling, to sustain her own spirit and to convey to her daughter the will to wake up, to survive. This book was written during the interminable hours the novelist Isabel Allende spent in the corridors of a Madrid hospital, in her hotel room and beside her daughter Paula's bed during the summer and autumn of 1992.
This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families – a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story. In December 1991, Allende’s daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma.
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