The sum of our days

R$ 124,90

Sinopse

In this deeply revealing second memoir, after Paula, novelist Allende (The House of Spirits) utilizes her family and the complex network of their relationships as the linchpin of the narrative. While weaving in her candid opinions on love and marriage, friendship, drug addiction, the writing life and religious fanaticism, Allende continues to work through the grief over her daughter's death. In these years without you I have learned to manage sadness, making it my ally. Little by little your absence and other losses in my life are turning into a sweet nostalgia. And though Allende's insight is keen, her prose polished and her language hypnotic, it's the stories of her close-knit family that move the memoir forward. We lived as a tribe, Chilean style; we were almost always together. While much of the story is infused with melancholy, her world is by no means without humor, mirth and wisdom. She celebrates friends' triumphs and exploits their foibles, including the odyssey of the boobs, without taking herself too seriously.

Participantes

Autor: Isabel Allende

Tradutor: Margaret Sayers Peden

Autor

ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende nasceu em 1942, no Peru, onde seu pai era diplomata. Viveu no Chile entre 1945 e 1975, com longos períodos de residência em outros lugares, na Venezuela até 1988 e, a partir de então, na Califórnia. Começou a carreira literária como jornalista no Chile e na Venezuela. Em 1982, seu primeiro romance, A casa dos espíritos, tornou-se um dos títulos míticos da literatura latino-americana. A ele se seguiram muitos outros, todos com grande sucesso internacional. Seus livros já foram traduzidos para 35 idiomas. Recebeu o Prêmio Nacional de Literatura 2010, no Chile, e o Prêmio Hans Christian Andersen, em 2012, este último pela série As Aventuras da Águia e do Jaguar.