num_pages: 330
description: Newly Reissued New York Times Bestselling Author“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”— Los Angeles Times When Isabel Allende’s daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.
language: English
title: Paula
titlecomplete: Paula
genres: Magical Realism, Autobiography, Latin American, Biography Memoir, Spanish Literature, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 45125
publisher: Harper Perennial