Isabel Allende

I don't usually read much, but when I read "La ciudad de las bestias" one of her books that I like very much, and this book is the first form the trilogy of: "La ciudad de las bestias", "El reino del dragón de oro" and "El bosque de los pigmeos", I have read two books of this trilogy. These books are about a boy and a girl, Alexandre Cold meets Nadia Santos when Alexander and his grandmother kate undertake a travel of the Internacional Geographic magazine, where kate works, to Brazil, and after that Nadia, Alexander and Kate have more adventures in the Tibet and in Africa.

Isabel allende was born in Lima, Peru, August 7, 1942, where his father was intended as a diplomat. He attended various private schools and traveled through several countries before returning to Santiago, Chile to complete their studies and work in the Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), United Nations agency. In 17 years in Chile began his career as a journalist, wrote articles on highly controversial issues. Furthermore made film and television. His personal life is marked by the history of Chile, the country had to abandon in 1975 when the situation became untenable after the murder of his uncle in the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

In 1962, he married Miguel Frias, who has two children: Paula and Nicolas. Was divorced in 1987. In exile he wrote his first novel when a letter written on the occasion of the death of his grandfather eventually become his first novel, "The House of the Spirits" (1982), a family chronicle set in the whirlwind of political and economic changes developments in Latin America. The novel was well received by critics, who saw in it some elements of magic realism, a literary technique that involves mixing the real with the supernatural and whose principal exponent is the Colombian novelist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez . This novel was made into a film by Danish director Bille August.

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