The Sum Of Our Days by Isabel Allende

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home.Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, āThe House of the Spiritsā, was based on her Chilean childhood, and her autobiographical works include the deeply moving āPaulaā ā a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma ā and the fascinating āMy Invented Countryā, which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochetās military coup. Now, in āThe Sum of the Daysā, we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years.The first page picks up from where Paula ends ā her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 ā when Allende recounts spreading Paulaās ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends ā kindred spirits ā central to her life. āThe Sum of the Daysā, based on Allendeās own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.

Publisher:	HarperPerennial
Year:	2009
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780007269495
Condition:	Good

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SKU: 1603327
Location: Biography