Isabel Allende

The Orinda Owls will meet and discuss Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende. They meet monthly at Orinda Books and welcome new members.

Isabel Allende writes beautiful, lyrical, moving books. Her latest is Ines of My Soul is Historical Fiction set in the time of the Spanish Conquistadors. Moving from Spain to Chile and Peru, it is the story of a remarkable woman.

"Isabel Allende (April 24) was born in Peru where her father was Chilean ambassador. Returning to Chile she worked as a journalist before moving to Venezuela in 1974 after her cousin President Salvadore Allende was deposed in a CIA-backed coup. Her first novel was the internationally acclaimed The ... (more)House of the Spirits. She went on to publish 16 books including Paula, Aphrodite, City of the Beasts and Inés of My Soul. Her new book, The Sum of our Days, is a memoir based on her own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile."

Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

Isabel Allende’s extraordinary life has been the basis for much of her celebrated writing. She returns to Southbank Centre to read from and discuss her new memoir The Sum of Our Days. Beginning with the death of her daughter in 1992, the book recounts her years in California, and is a self-portrait ... (more)of a daughter, wife and mother drawn from her own journals. The work also illuminates in fascinating ways her life as one of the world’s most renowned writers.

This is a ticketed event. To attend this event, you must purchase a copy of The Sum of Our Days from Women & Children First. At the time of purchase, one ticket will be issued to you. You may pre-order the book online, by telephone or in person.

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Harvard Book Store is most pleased to welcome Chilean novelist and memoirist extraordinaire ISABEL ALLENDE to read from her latest memoir The Sum of Our Days.

In The Sum of Our Days, Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death ... (more)of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. And she recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family.

Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality, infidelity, addiction, and memory. Here, too, are the amazing stories behind Allende’s books, the superstitions that guide her writing process, and her adventurous travels. Ultimately, The Sum of Our Days offers a unique tour of this writer’s inner world and of the relationships that have become essential to her life and her work.