by Isabel Allende · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807810213
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«D'amore e ombra» is Isabel Allende's romantic novel, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (254 pages, in Italian).
Set in Chilean society under the dictatorship, it tells of the love between two young journalists, Irene and Francisco, who investigate the disappearance of a girl with mediumistic abilities. Their search takes them through police stations, prisons, the morgue and concentration camps, while repression becomes increasingly threatening along their path.
Isabel Allende's second novel, originally published as «De amor y de sombra» in 1984; this Italian edition, translated by Angelo Morino, belongs to the Universale Economica collection.
Aimed at readers of Latin American fiction, romantic and historical novels.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
