![]() ![]() I understood before I started that the story would have themes focused on human rights issues, immigration and abuse. ![]() I searched repeatedly for a foothold within the characters, something to secure the storytelling, without luck. Honestly, I had to stop listening three or four times, give it a day or two and then return and try again. To me this book was so extremely violent and politically driven that I was completely overwhelmed. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of - and our need for - love. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice.Īs these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. New York Times and worldwide best-selling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” ( People).ĭuring the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his 60s, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. ![]()
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