by Isabel Allende · Suhrkamp · tapa dura · ISBN 9783518026557
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«Von Liebe und Schatten» is the German edition of Isabel Allende's novel, published by Suhrkamp in hardcover (423 pages, in German).
The action takes place in Chile during the military dictatorship and follows Irene Beltrán, a journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer, as they become involved in a conspiracy that pits them against the regime. The search for an uncomfortable truth intersects with a love story that ends up becoming a symbol of resistance.
The novel was originally published in Spanish as «De amor y de sombra» (1984); this German version appeared in 1986.
For readers who master German and are interested in Latin American narrative and love stories with a political backdrop.
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.
