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by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

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This is MY BOOK OF LIFE... so touching... so intimate... i cried as a child in the middle of the beach, in 15 august.... How can i reach the author.......??

Andrea Riv I hope this site is helpful http://www.isabelallende.com/en/home/30

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I have had this book for ever. It is so painful for me to read, I have not ever been able to finish it. Being the mother of a daughter I adore makes this too, too hard. Has this happened to anyone else?

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) I've read it twice and each time it made me very angry. She knew her daughter suffered from a hereditary, little understood disorder, and yet when Pau…moreI've read it twice and each time it made me very angry. She knew her daughter suffered from a hereditary, little understood disorder, and yet when Paula says she feels unwell, her mother puts it down to her whiny nature and ignores it until it's too late. To me, the final dream-sequence scene with the slippers seemed like an attempt at an apology, but it didn't work. I gave up on Allende after The Infinite Plan, the book released after this one.(less)

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