Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a novelist, feminist, and philanthropist. She is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than eighty million copies of her twenty-eight books across forty-two languages. She is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The Wind Knows My Name, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, and Eva Luna. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and in 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California with her husband and dogs. You can visit Isabel Allende at IsabelAllende.com or follow her on Instagram @AllendeIsabel, on Facebook at Facebook.com/IsabelAllende, and on X @IsabelAllende.
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"Arresting and altogether distinctive, powerful and haunting; a collection to be read aloud and repeated for
generations."
– Elaine Kendall, The Los Angeles Times
“Eva Luna's stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry.”
– Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times
“Allende is a real talent, an amazingly prolific one. In her stories there are palpable life and death risks, the risks of passionate love, the risks of passionate belief, of convictions and honor.”
– Leigh Allison Wilson, The Washington Post
“Instantly seductive, richly sensual and unabashedly romantic.”
– Chicago Sun-Times
“Full of grace and passion…love and revenge…enchanting…One could go on reading [Allende’s] stories forever.”
– Orlando Sentinel
“Isabel Allende always revives one's faith in the intoxicating power of sheer old-fashioned storytelling.”
– The San Diego Union
“A fiercely erotic tour of the magical.”
– Harper's Bazaar
“An extraordinary fictional potion…That all the tales are love stories is [a] bonus.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Allende is a skilled storyteller.... She captures whole lives with the briefest of lines. In her world, the scales of destiny achieve a rough balance. Despite the brevity of these encounters, Allende makes each one matter.”
– Detroit Free Press
“Allende can spin a funny, sensual yarn, but she can also use her narrative skills to remind us that parallel to our placid and comfortable existence is another, invisible universe, one where poverty, misery and torture are all too real.”
– The Nation
“Some short-story collections contain such luscious fare readers devour them at one sitting, eager to hasten the moment when they can savor each tale again in the rereading.”
– Edmonton Journal (Canada)
“Isabel Allende at her best. The twenty-three tales that compose the collection present a plethora of fascinating, robust characters.”
– Barbara Mujica, Americas
"Allende's latest work gives us a full flavored taste of life in Latin America, but her themes touch on the universal human experience. It's a treat not to be missed.”
– Southern Oregon Currents
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