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Isabel Allende
Writer
She is 66 years old, has written 19 books and
raised a family. That last word is the one that means the most to
Isabel Allende. However, this Lima-born, Chilean-bred California
resident cannot live without books, whether it be as the author of
works as popular as La casa de los espíritus (The House of the
Spirits) or as painful as Paula, or as a reader, part of a world that
cannot be conceived of without the existence of the written word.
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JMG
Le Clezio
Laila, a
Moroccan girl, was abducted from his village in the mountains and sold
to six years to Lalla Asma, an elderly woman that instructs and becomes
his grandmother. When, after eight years, dies Lalla Asma, Laia flee
and take refuge in a fondac, actually a house of "princesses" who are
the delight of men. But even there, with dubious, the persecuted son of
Lalla Asma.
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El
libro de los secretos
(The book of secrets)
Deepak
Chopra
Every life is a book of
secrets, ready to be opened. We are all looking for a personal
breakthrough, a turning point, a revelation that brings with it new
meaning. The Book of Secrets—a crystalline distillation of
insights and wisdom accumulated over the lifetime of one of the great
spiritual thinkers of our time—provides an exquisite new tool
for achieving just that.
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2666
(2666)
Roberto
Bolaño
2666, the 898-page novel he
sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing
Bolaño's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that
balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread.
But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in
wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world,
2666, while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a
dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the
desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico.
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El oficial polaco
(The Polish Officer)
Alan
Furst
Published to outstanding
acclaim, his novels brilliantly recreate the atmosphere and tension of
the worlds of espionage and resistance in the Europe of the 1930s and
the Second World War. After many years living in France and traveling
as a journalist in Russia and Eastern Europe, Furst now resides in Sag
Harbor, New York.
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