“Aphrodite: stories, recipes and other aphrodisiacs” by Isabel Allende with illustrations by Robert Shekter and Panchita Llona recipes “The author has cooked up love, eroticism and humor, sure that “appetite and sex are the great engines of history”, since the entire creation is an uninterrupted process of digestion and fertility and everything is
“Sepia Portrait” by Isabel Allende “Sepia Portrait tells the prodigious story of Aurora del Valle, who at the age of 30 decides to go in search of her misty family past after having grown up in a privileged environment in San Francisco, cared for by her paternal grandmother Paulina, a wealthy self-made businesswoman.”
“The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende “It is the saga of a powerful family of Latin American landowners, first in its splendor and then in the years of tribulation and decadence. The trajectory of the various characters, whose adventures span almost a century, ends up configuring a kind of parable that goes beyond the geographical framework where