Isabel allende daughter paula
She ranges across time, balancing the intoxications of love and magical moments in her family’s past with the maddening intractability of Paula’s coma.
This is a book about a daughter’s death, but it also is Allende’s story-lush with her memories, impressions and passions: vibrant with strange lands, rich lives, and grand characters: pulsating with an almost unbearable love of words.” “The narrative magic that thundered through Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, triumphs here, too. A magician with words, Allende makes this grim scenario into a wondrous encounter with the innermost sorrows and joys of another human being.”
Writing nonfiction for the first time, she interweaves the story of her own life with the slow dying of her 28-year-old daughter, Paula. “Allende is a mesmerizing novelist who here takes on a double challenge.