The sum of our days
By: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Contributors: Peden, Margaret Sayers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780061551833
Subjects: Allende, Isabel.; Authors, Chilean -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Chilean -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Suma de los dias.
Description: In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory. Here, too, are the amazing stories behind Allende's books, the superstitions that guide her writing process, and her adventurous travels.--From amazon.com.