Allende, Isabel
Allende, Isabel ( 1942 – ),Chilean writer born in Lima who has lived in exile in Venezuela and in California. Her first novel, La casa de los espíritus ( 1982 ; The House of the Spirits, 1985 ), explores three generations of women as a family saga ending in the 1973 coup in a style that moves from magical exaggerations to documentary. In the same vein she wrote De amor y de sombra ( 1984 ; Of Love and Shadows, 1987 ), Eva Luna ( 1987 ; 1988 ), whose stories become the tropical and erotic Cuentos de Eva Luna ( 1990 ; The Stories of Eva Luna, 1990 ) and El plan infinito ( 1991 ; The Infinite Plan, 1993 ). Allende wrote movingly about the death of her daughter (Paula, 1994 ; 1995 ) and about love and recipes in Afrodita: cuentos, recetas y otras afrodisiacas ( 1997 ; Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses).
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