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Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of the... read more
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Naci en medio de la humareda y mortandad de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la mayor parte de mi juventud transcurrio esperando que el planeta volara en pedazos cuando alguien apretara distraidamente un boton y se dispararan las bombas atomicas.
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- Isabel Allende (Author)
- Pat White
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