Book summaryIn a Latin American country under a military dictatorship, Irene Beltran, an upper-class journalist, and Francisco Leal, the photographer son of a Marxist professor, discover a hideous crime. Media reviews"Allende's work contains depths of empathy and compassion rarely found in fiction that embraces a political cause... She is a writer of deep conviction, but she knows that in the end it is people, not issues, who matter most." |
Of Love and Shadowsby Allende, Isabel1st American Edition
Book desription: Knopf, 1987. Hardback 1st American Edition Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge, else fine. Promotional postcard laid in. Inspired by the real-life discovery of the bodies in an abandoned mine of peasants who were killed by police shortly after Gen. Augusto Pinochet came to power in Chile, this novel tells the fictional story of Irene, a naïve and sheltered writer, who discovers the bodies of those killed by the police and who then must confront the truth about what is happening in her country. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Allende's second novel. ISBN: 0394549627
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