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Allende's Paula (1995) is a memoir that she wrote for her daughter Paula, while the young woman was in a coma. It is a story about Allende's family and has received very good reviews. The experience, however, was exhausting for Allende, who suffered a writer's block after completing it.

The House of Spirits (1982) was Allende's first and most acclaimed novel. She wrote this book while living in exile and remembering the effect that her grandfather had on her. It is written as a series of letters to him, and it tells the story of one family through three generations...

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