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Of Love and Shadows

Isabel Allende

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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Original Title:	De amor y de sombra
ISBN:	0553383833 (ISBN13: 9780553383836)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Irene Beltran, Francisco Leal, Beatriz Alcàntara, Evangelina Ranquileo, Pradelio Ranquileo, Digna Ranquileo, Mario (Of Love and Shadows), Rosa (Of Love and Shadows), Prof. Leal, Hilda Leal, Gustavo Morante
Setting:	Chile
Literary Awards:	Soaring Eagle Book Award for 10-12 (1990)

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Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team—and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice—and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them. Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, Of Love and Shadows is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist—and peopled with those who dare to challenge it.

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Title	:	Of Love and Shadows
Author	:	Isabel Allende
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published April 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Magical Realism. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Novels

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I have yet to read an Allende book that I dont like. This one is short, but theres a lot packed into those pages, and I had a wonderful time with it.This is a book about life under a military dictatorship in an unnamed country that can only be Chile. Irene, a reporter, and Francisco, a psychologist-turned-photographer, are forced to confront the ugliest side of the regime when a teenage girl disappears immediately after an interview.As is to be expected from an Allende book, the plot meanders a

my most favourite isabel allende novel; i would learn another language just for the pleasure of reading her in her native tongue. if the translation is so beautiful i can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be in spanish. i have to explain that i review the books i have read not on their objective merit but on the ways in which they speak to me. of love and shadows weaves a love story into the middle of a frightening political situation that is disturbingly real precisely because it has been

If you just want fluffy romance story, don't read this. Contrary what title, and horrendous covers of the edition I've read may suggest, this is not some love story.Horrible covers that made me feel ashamed while I was reading it in bus full of people from my institute: This is story about oppressive dictatorship, censure, about fighting for freedom and truth. About courage to act upon your beliefs, and about people who will turn their head from stuff that don't suit their perfect world. About

The cover of this particular edition is splendid in its awfulness. Overall I just didn't care for this book. Allende does too much narrating about what people are like and what they're feeling instead of just letting them develop. I liked the political stuff, didn't really care for the love story. I found it pretty average.As a side note, what does she have against the elderly?! There's quite a few borderline ageist quotes in this book. Here have one: "During the months since he had met Irene,

If novelists are to deserve a voice, priority should surely be given to novelists who tell stories of the forcibly silenced. While I get the fact that The Disappeared is a tragedy of epic proportions, and the world needed to sit up and notice when it was endemic in South America, to choose the medium of a shmaltzy, 1980s, Lady-Diana-hairstyle romance to portray it is just the wrong thing to do. Its not equally tragic, but its somewhere on the scale.Allende could write. For sure. Im just not

I'm gonna explore what I've never done before--all the works of a single author. Can't think of another writer I'd rather journey with.

One of those books that cannot be set aside to catch up on sleep.Allende's warm personality, her wisdom and experiences keepsthe reader mesmerized.