Isabel Allende

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  In In the Midst of Winder, Lucia loses her brother during the political turmoil in Chile during the early 1970s and is forced to flee the country, eventually becoming an exile in Canada. What...
  Isabel Allende's novel In The Midst of Winter details how a snowy car crash brings three very different people with different backgrounds together. Richard Bowmaster is an aging and lonely...

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  What were the contributions of Isabel Allende in the field of literature?
  Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Lima, Peru. After spending some time as an editor (Mampato magazine), she began to write stories which reflected her personal experiences and the raising up of...

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  Who does the slave boy Zarite fall in love with in Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende?
  Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende is set during the late 1770s on the island of Saint-Domingue, which is now Haiti, a French colony on which the French participated in the slave trade and...

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  How did Azucena’s death change Rolf?
  Rolf has spent almost every minute of the day with Azucena, doing everything he can to comfort and console the little girl as she remains stubbornly trapped in the aftermath of a gigantic mudslide....

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  Is there any relation between Postcolonialism and Chilean author Isabel Allende?
  If a postcolonial literary author can be defined as a writer who re-examines classical literature with a particular focus on the social "discourse” that shaped it, Chilean writer Isabel Allende...

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  Cuentos de Eva luna I am currently preparing a guide for my L6 Spanish students on Cuentos de Eva Luna. I wonder if anybody else feels as passionate as me about this book and would like to contribute.
  I am a Spanish teacher myself, and Isabel Allende is one of my favorite writers, as is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am not sure if you are introducing your story in Spanish or in English, but it would...

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  How does Isabelle Allende helped define her literary period by attempting to reach out to everyone?
  I think that Allende represents much in a postmodern literary period in her attempt to articulate voice to a condition that might be silenced without her presence. Her background enables her to...

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