Lire en espagnol Collection dirigée par Henri YvinecCette collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.
Notes en espagnol en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
Isabel Allende Cuentos de Eva Luna présentés par Manuel Casas et Christine Casas-Michel Rencontres improbables sous les Tropiques : un capitaine nordique et une émigrée russe sur la piste de danse d'une taverne bavaroise, un colonel blasé face à une magicienne des mots.
Destins contrariés : le mariage arrangé d'une jeune fille confortablement dotée, une maîtresse d'école à la retraite coupable de meurtre, une mère de famille à la poursuite de ses chimères, une vieille dame en odeur de sainteté...
Entre rêve et réalité, illusions et confusions, des êtres se croisent et se connaissent, parfois s'aiment ou se séparent...
En este primer volumen de las «Memorias del Águila y el Jaguar» Alexander Cold va a vivir una aventura que jamas olvidara.
Alexander Cold es un muchacho americano de quince anos que parte al Amazonas con su abuela Kate, periodista especializada en viajes. La expedición se interna en la selva en busca de una extrana bestia gigantesca. Junto a su companera de viaje, Nadia Santos, y un centenario chaman indigena, Alex conocera un mundo sorprendente.
El universo ya conocido de Isabel Allende se amplia en La Ciudad de las bestias con nuevos elementos de realismo magico, aventura y naturaleza. Los jóvenes protagonistas, Nadia y Alexander, se internan en la inexplorada selva amazónica llevando de la mano al lector en un viaje sin pausa por un territorio misterioso donde se borran los limites entre la realidad y el sueno, donde hombres y dioses se confunden, donde los espiritus andan de la mano con los vivos.
«Aqui esta todo lo que soy yo: toda mi manera de ser y de ver el mundo.»
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende.
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team--including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor--is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.
Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia''s spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.
THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR ''A grand storyteller'' - KHALED HOSSEINI ''A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat'' - DAILY MAIL ''What a joy it must be to come upon Allende for the first time'' - COLUM MCCANN No, we''re not lost.
The wind knows my name.
And yours too.
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child''s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel''s mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita''s mother.
Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers - and never stop dreaming.>
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE '' Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish'' DAILY TELEGRAPH '' A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider'' NEW STATESMAN ''A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat'' DAILY MAIL One extraordinary woman.
One hundred years of history.
One unforgettable story.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all others, this is the story of a hundred-year life - of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Bearing witness to a century of history, it is a life shaped by the fight for women''s rights, the rise and fall of tyrants and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics.
Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humour will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
Han transcurrido más de veinticinco años desde la publicación de LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS escrita por Isabel Allende (1942), una casi desconocida chilena exiliada en Caracas que, para «sacarse del alma los fantasmas», tomó la pluma en enero de 1981 y no paró hasta enhebrar más de quinientas páginas, como un exorcismo. Después comenzó la peregrinación por las editoriales del lugar, que la rechazaron, para finalmente lanzarse con éxito en España, de donde saltó a Europa e Hispanoamérica. En ese proceso de recepción literaria llega por fin al Chile de Pinochet en el que se cuela de contrabando burlando la censura. A partir de ahí explota el «fenómeno Allende»: un inmenso éxito de ventas, traducciones al alemán, ruso, japonés... y la versión cinematográfica en 1993. La clave de este éxito radica en la extraordinaria capacidad de narrar de Isabel Allende, inventora de una «comedia humana» al estilo de Balzac.
