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Original Title: | De amor y de sombra |
ISBN: | 0553383833 (ISBN13: 9780553383836) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Irene Beltran, Francisco Leal, Beatriz Alcàntara, Evangelina Ranquileo, Pradelio Ranquileo, Digna Ranquileo, Mario (Of Love and Shadows), Rosa (Of Love and Shadows), Prof. Leal, Hilda Leal, Gustavo Morante |
Setting: | Chile |
Literary Awards: | Soaring Eagle Book Award for 10-12 (1990) |
Isabel Allende
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.97 | 23746 Users | 833 Reviews
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Title | : | Of Love and Shadows |
Author | : | Isabel Allende |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | August 30th 2005 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published April 1st 1987) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Magical Realism. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Novels |
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Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team—and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice—and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them. Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, Of Love and Shadows is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist—and peopled with those who dare to challenge it.Rating Out Of Books Of Love and Shadows
Ratings: 3.97 From 23746 Users | 833 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books Of Love and Shadows
Nothing I wasn't expecting. I must confess, though, it annoyed me the similarity to The House of Spirits. Isabel Allende's style is predictible, she tries to 'hook' you, to pull you in the story. I don't know about others, but she just couldn't do it with me. :) I was permanently noticing her style, habit of describing everything to the little detail [annoying and useless, if you ask me], reducing to characters to one, two presentations that say no-thing!-it just puts them in category-bleah!;One of those books that cannot be set aside to catch up on sleep.Allende's warm personality, her wisdom and experiences keepsthe reader mesmerized.
I had hoped to find "House of Spirits" among the library stacks, but no, just an empty slot with this book, 'Of Love and Shadow' right beside it so I thought I would give it a try. I very much enjoyed the opening half of this book as there were some truly fascinating characters. It was pleasant reading: what would bring all these characters together? Where is the author headed? Then the book veered into very dark political issues and there is a particularly gruesome rape/murder scene that seemed
This is Isabel Allende's second novel. Her first, The House of Spirits, is deeply immerse in the Magic Realism style of the masters of the genre. This one, also Magic Realism, has a more urban tone, setting a style that would become prevalent later, when English-speaking writers took over the genre.The book at its core is a love story, one plagued by shadows. The shadows of the totalitarian military regimen imposed in Chile by Augusto Pinochet.Many fans of Allende's first book, find this one
This book has really stuck with me since I read it in the late 1980'sIt's interesting because it's a historical tale that is still very much relevant today.The United States involvement in the military Coup that overthrew the then popular president Allende (This writer's Grandfather, I think...) is rightly seen as an event that is little known or understood by people in the US. If this event were better known or understood, it is felt, it would influence politics in the U.S. in a deep and
What to say about this. I began it yesterday evening, I finished it this afternoon. It is wonderful. Some beautuful descriptive phrases, tiny images which capture something powerful. Gatherings of water in cobbles being likened to shards of glass, the mouth of a cave in which lie horrors as of yet undiscovered likened to a groaning mouth. Simple, obvious phrases but all the more powerful for that. Everytime I read a translated novel, and sadly owing to my 'non-ployglotness' this is inevitable, i
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