by Isabel Allende · Rayo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060927202
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«Paula» is Isabel Allende's autobiographical memoir, published by Rayo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
When her daughter Paula falls into a coma, Isabel Allende writes the story of her family and her own, addressing it to her. The narrative brings together ancestors, childhood memories, youthful experiences and intimate secrets, in a memoir that accepts the magical and the spiritual as part of life.
First Rayo edition published in 1996.
For readers of Isabel Allende and memoirs: knowing her family history helps understand the origin of many characters and motifs in her 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.
