
Present-a hospital in Spain where Paula is being treated-and the past where, asĪllende is growing up, Chile is slowly descending into the militaryĭictatorship that ended the lives of thousands of innocent people. The novel reads like a stream of consciousness, bouncing between the

In my case, it was many, many, many, tears at theĮnd. Mother losing her child in such a poignant and honest way that you can’t helpīut read this book with a tear in the corner of your eye, just waiting for the So I don’t feel guilty about staining the pages with my salty tears andĮmotionally driven, scribbled notes. To wake up, and be the vibrant and intelligent young woman that she was, whileĭetailing the history of the Allende family, and the complex reality of living A letter expressing her longing for her daughter Her daughter into a comatose state, Isabel Allende set out to write her daughter, She went, she left friends and love” (267).
