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Publication Order of Daughter Of Fortune Books

Daughter of Fortune (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Portrait in Sepia (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of City Of The Beasts Books

City of the Beasts (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Forest of the Pygmies (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The House of the Spirits (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Of Love and Shadows (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eva Luna (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Infinite Plan (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Zorro (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Inés of My Soul (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Island Beneath the Sea (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Maya's Notebook (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ripper (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Japanese Lover (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In the Midst of Winter (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Long Petal of the Sea (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Soul of a Woman (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Violeta (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wind Knows My Name (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Stories of Eva Luna (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Aphrodite: A Memoir of Senses (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Zorro, Volume 1 (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Paths of Resistance (With: Gore Vidal,Charles McCarry) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paula (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mothers and Sons (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sum of Our Days (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books

with Gary A. Braunbeck, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robin McKinley, William Nolan, Robert R. McCammon, Brian Hodge, Richard Christian Matheson, Greg Bear, Michael Swanwick, Karen Joy Fowler, John Kessel, R.A. Lafferty, Lisa Goldstein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Cadigan, Michael McDowell, John Farris, Stephen Gallagher, Charles de Lint, Chet Williamson, Daniel Abraham, Lewis Shiner, Edward Bryant, Lisa Tuttle, Joan D. Vinge, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, Jeff VanderMeer, Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, Terry Dowling, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peter Straub, Jane Yolen, Joan Aiken, Patricia C. Wrede, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Emma Bull, Michael Bishop, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Shirley, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Dickinson, Margo Lanagan, Ted Chiang, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Kim Newman, John M. Ford, Richard Matheson, Barry N. Malzberg, Alice Hoffman, S.P. Somtow, Steve Tem, Jonathan Carroll, Ian McDonald, Douglas Clegg, Douglas E. Winter, Christopher Fowler, David B. Silva, John Brunner, Bentley Little, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Conrad Williams, Graham Joyce, Simon Clark, China Miéville, Geoff Ryman, Lucy Taylor, William Hope Hodgson, Tanya Huff, M. John Harrison, William Browning Spencer, Steven Brust, Craig Shaw Gardner, Thomas M. Disch, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lucy Sussex, Fred Chappell, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Scott Nicholson, Angela Carter, Haruki Murakami, M. Rickert, Michael Chabon, Stuart Dybek, Ben Fountain, Steven Millhauser, Jeffrey Ford, James Lawrence Powell, Thomas Ligotti, Nisi Shawl, Anthony Doerr, Kevin Brockmeier, Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Michael Blumlein, Greg van Eekhout, Lawrence Miles, ChristopherRowe, John Crowley, Tim Pratt, Garth Nix, Andy Duncan, Laird Barron, MichaelShea, James P. Blaylock, Ellen Klages, Kij Johnson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sarah Monette, Kat Howard, Nathan Ballingrud, Alan Moore, Elizabeth Massie, Terri Windling, Susanna Clarke, Gary McMahon, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Cooper, Ellen Datlow, K.W. Jeter, Ru Emerson, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Karen Russell, Veronica Schanoes, Stephen Volk, Adam Nevill, Tina Rath, Simon Bestwick, Robert Coover, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ian Frazier, P Djèlí Clark, Frances Hardinge, Leif Enger, Natalie Babbitt, Gwen Strauss, Michael de Larrabeiti, R.T. Smith, Karel Čapek, Rachel Simon
Eighth Annual Collection (By: William Browning Spencer,Terri Windling,Ellen Datlow) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ninth Annual Collection (By: Stephen King,Peter Crowther,Terry Dowling,Ellen Datlow) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Twelfth Annual Edition (By: Terri Windling,Ellen Datlow) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Thirteenth Annual Collection (By: Tim Lebbon,Terri Windling,Ellen Datlow) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Penguin Book of Latin American Short Stories(1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales(1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sunrise to Sunset(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nineteenth Annual Collection(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories By Women(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Writers: Their Lives and Works(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Isabel Allende was born on 2nd August 1942 in Lima, Peru. Isabel’s parents, Tomás who was government representative of Chile and Francisca Llona Barros divorced when she was only three. Isabel moved to Santiago with her mother after the divorce. In Santiago, Chile she was raised in the home of her grandparents. Her grandmother had an interest in fortune-telling and astrology. She also told other stories. All these made a lasting impression on Isabel. The house was full with books which she was allowed to read. At age 16, Allende graduated from a private high school. Three years after her graduation, she got married to her 1st husband Miguel Frías who was an engineer. While in Santiago, Allende worked in the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization as a secretary for many years. She Later became an editor, a journalist as well as an advice columnist for the Paula magazine. In addition she worked as a television interviewer and newscaster.

The assassination of her uncle, the Chilean president Salvador Allende, in 1973 during the military take-over of the Chile government, Isabel’s life greatly changed. Initially she didn’t believe that the new government would last. She, however, later discovered that her stay in Chile was too dangerous and this made her flee to Venezuela together with her husband and two children. Even though she had stabilized her successful journalist career in Chile, she found it hard to get a similar job in Venezuela. Isabel was inspired to write her first novel, The House of the Spirits in 1982. The novel was a great success as it became a best seller in West Germany an in Spain. Based on the memories of her family and political changes in her country, the novel describes the political and personal conflicts of many generations of a family that lived in a Latin American country. The novel was released as a film in the United States in 1994

Some of Isabel’s great novels include Love and Shadows released in 1987, The Infinite Plan which was released in 1993, Daughter of Fortune in 1999 and Zorro which was released in 2005. Her writing style could be described to be full of magic realism, which makes use myth and fantasy override place and time. Isabel Allende, due to urging by her grandchildren, wrote her 1st book for the young adults, City of the Beasts. It was published in 2002. In both 2003 and 2005, she released Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies respectively For young readers. Together with fiction, she also included her own life in her writing with many memoirs which include; Paula which was released in 1995 and My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile which was released in 2003.

Isabel certainly did a great job in the novel Love and Shadows of 1987 which has its Setting in an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, in a country that is full of arbitrary arrests, summary executions and sudden disappearances The novel is about a two people’s passionate affair and readiness to risk everything in their fight for truth and justice. Irene Beltrán who is a reporter came from a rich and wealthy family, but that could not prevent a young photographer and member of the underground movement for resistance, Francisco Leal from attracted to her beauty. Francisco was determined to overthrowing the dictating military of the nation. It didn’t matter to him that Irene’s fiancé, Gustavo Morante, nicknamed “Bridegroom of Death,” was a captain of the army. Every time Francisco accompanied Irene to an assignment for the magazine he fell for her more deeply. When they are sent to investigate about the case of Evangelina Ranquileo, a girl who is suffering from spectacular fits which is said to end in miraculous powers, the pair is caught up in an experience of violence and terror as they discover a hideous crime, a revelation which provokes and challenges the regime and places their own lives at risk. Isabel contrasts the images of overcrowded morgues as well as mass graves with South America’s land scape. She also brings bold life to the characters; Irene is a wilfully ignorant, decadent kind of mother, while Francisco is an impulsive and foolhardy father; Mario is a homosexual celebrity who is fearless subversive. The novel Love and Shadows is an irresistible tale of ecstasy and tragedy as well as sacrifice and bravery; it is also a tale of state betrayal and family loyalty. The book is greatly uplifting and moving.

In her novel, The infinite plan which had its release in 1993, she writes about man who is searching for love as well as his struggle in coming in terms with childhood full of neglect and poverty. This was her first novel to have a United States setting and also to use American characters. The father of Gregory Reeves is a self-styled preacher who travels in a caravan in the American West together with his family in 1940s, preaching about “The Infinite Plan,” a divine vision that explains on life’s meaning and the universe’s nature. However, when the preacher becomes ill, his family quits its nomadic lifestyle and settles in a Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles. Gregory starts a new life in a place where Spanish speaking is the order of the day: school, books, gangs, sex, ideas as well as work. While exploring the world of barrio that is mysterious, he meets with people who are to shape his future. Pedro and Inmaculada Morales are among the people who he met that became his surrogate parents and provided him the security and love that he could not get from his family; Carmen Morales, the daughter of his surrogate parents is Gregory’s good friend for life. She grows into earthy woman and teaches him about friendship and love. Juan José Morales, who is their son and a buddy of Gregory, has an experience in Vietnam that changes the course of his own family’s as well as Gregory’s lives. He also met Cyrus, an old Communist intellectual who inspires Gregory with a social justice passion. As the story of Gregory unfolds, his survival struggle is depicted through the persecution by gangs within the barrio as well as the war horrors in Vietnam and his success. After returning from Vietnam, He becomes a San Francisco lawyer where he acquires possessions and money finds love with wrong women, abuses alcohol and parties, neglects his own children, and finally loses himself. Eventually, after a good number of false turns, he search for love and his soul leads him back to his roots and a new life.

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