Her devotees write to her in droves, sharing their own stories and seeking counsel.īetween sips of tea, Allende is affable and energetic as she discusses her tumultuous life odyssey. Mega-bestsellers such as Inés of My Soul, City of the Beasts and Paula, a memoir about her daughter who died in 1992 after a porphyria-induced coma, have proven Allende’s ability to plumb the human heart, and channel narratives flecked with magical realism. She wrote it as her marriage to Gordon crumbled, freighting the story with a painful acceptance that few experience true, lasting love. A multigenerational epic of love lost and found, it sweeps from present-day San Francisco to the Nazi invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor and the herding of people of Japanese descent into US internment camps. Photograph: Felipe Amilibia/AFP/Getty ImagesĬhic in black boots and skirt and embroidered jacket, Allende is at the tail-end of a two-month European and US tour to promote her latest book, The Japanese Lover.
Isabel Allende in Caracas, Venezuela, 1985.
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