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The Pain of Too Much Tenderness.
A most poignant book by Isabel Allende. She surmounts words and feelings alike. The book lays bare the true story of her daughter's giving way too early, too slowly, and too sorely. It's a narrative that weds emotion to mystery; that nameless and dire facet of life. It reconciles contraries and makes peace with eyes too tender to shed their loved ones. Paula is not only a...
Publié le Sep 18 2003 par unknown
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Rambling and long winded
The author jumps right in with characters that are colorful but at the same time made it confusing to keep track of them all. I found the descriptions of her upbringing and home life very insightful. I was hoping to learn more about the disease that her daughter was afflicted with yet not much detail was given at all. This book might have held my interest more if...
Publié le Avril 5 1999
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Rambling and long winded, Avril 5 1999
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The author jumps right in with characters that are colorful but at the same time made it confusing to keep track of them all. I found the descriptions of her upbringing and home life very insightful. I was hoping to learn more about the disease that her daughter was afflicted with yet not much detail was given at all. This book might have held my interest more if the author had thought to break some of her writing into paragraphs. I found myself thinking that I was reading one long sentence after a while.
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In retrospect...., Fév 21 2004
Isabel Allende is by far my favourite author, and I had always thought that 'Paula' was my favourite of her works.However, stepping back from her books for sometime, then re-reading 'Paula' recently, I have had mixed feelings regarding the work. The piece strikes me as somewhat more repetitive then I remember. While I completely understand a mother's love and the sorrow Allende must have felt during this period, her laments are almost word-for-word repetition. By far, the more interesting section of the book is that related to the family history and specifically, Paula's personality and place in the family scheme of things. Additionally, the continous use of similar metaphors and talk of spirits begins to wear down on even the most devoted of fans. Paula's condition is never explained, and while I understand that it is as simple as a websearch, I felt that it was a major oversight to put it in relation to the context of their family. Likewise, I felt that Paula's life was discussed too little, and Isabel's perhaps too much. Of course, it was Isabel's attempts to make sense of something completely senseless, and thus we can hardly blame her from trying to think of things unrelated to her daughter and ensuing sorrow. A final criticism, much of the material covered in 'Paula' is again covered in Allende's 2003 biography 'My Invented Country'. If anything, 'Paula' serves as a suitable testment to the woman's extraordinary life. Don't get me wrong, the work is still of four star quality. The writing is vivid, spiritual and alive, the story is un-put-down-able, emotions are wrenched from within, and the piece has a round cohension of which I truly admire.
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The Pain of Too Much Tenderness., Sep 18 2003
A most poignant book by Isabel Allende. She surmounts words and feelings alike. The book lays bare the true story of her daughter's giving way too early, too slowly, and too sorely. It's a narrative that weds emotion to mystery; that nameless and dire facet of life. It reconciles contraries and makes peace with eyes too tender to shed their loved ones. Paula is not only a life-experience account, but also a true-to-heart revelation borne on human nature; how at times of utmost suffering we still manage to live on, as intimates, otherwise called memories, walk us along the remaining, and wavering, path of life. A tear and a smile, Paula.
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Gripping account of the death of the authors daughter, Sep 16 2003
Isabel Allende's usual style of thickly descriptive, almost surreal, writing doesn't generally appeal to me. I read Eva Luna, then House of Spirits; after that, I was over it. But this book is different. Paula is the straightforward telling of Allende's colorful family history interwoven with the account of her daughter Paula's death from a rare disease. The economical writing instantly won me over, and Allende's gift for storytelling comes to the fore in the many anecdotes she shares.
While Death is the book's key element, it doesn't overwhelm with pity or sorrow. As Allende distracts herself by writing this book as a long letter to Paula, who lies in a coma for months, the author distracts us as well. Absolutely superb.
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get out the tissue box, Sep 5 2003
This is an absolutely brilliant book. I have reads hundreds, if not thousands, of books and this is the only one that has ever made me cry. Allende's story is more moving than I can describe. Read it and weep, then go buy a copy for your mother. That's what I did.
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A book fool of love and tenderness from a mother, Sep 2 2003
I read the book in Spanish, since I am a native Spanish speaker. I enjoyed the story and the fresh style of Isabel Allende. The book is a document full of love to her sick daughter, Paula
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Masterpiece of storytelling and emotions, Jui 14 2003
Outstanding storytelling, although it many not be totally non-fictional is the reality thru the author's eyes. In this compelling story, the characters are not created or do they developed as the story goes along. The characters are real and Isabel gives us a clear picture of how she sees them. Isabel images and emotions are so clear that the reader is absorbed into her persona.
The novel skillfully combines the story of her daughter sickness with her life story. Although, some episodes of her daughter sickness become repetitive, it only shows how sincere her feelings were lain down in the book.
At the end, you have read more than a story...you had lived an experience.
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Conmovedora, Avril 30 2003
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Isabel Allende nos abre su corazón para compartir tal vez uno de los momentos más difíciles de su vida, enfrentar la rara enfermedad de su hija...es una historia profunda y escrita con la sencillez que caracteriza a ésta autora. Una especie de diario narrado por la desesperación de una madre al ver a su hija en coma.
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Very Gloomy, Avril 10 2003
I had enjoyed Daughter of Fortune so much, that I thought that Paula would be great. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed.
Although there are some wonderful passages looking into Isabel's past, too much of the book deals with her socialist and new age perspectives of life. Her writing depicts a very self-centered life. Unfortunately, she is never able to come to grips with her daughter's coma and eventual death. Her writing has been sadly affected by events and her personal outlook.
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A passionate and startling memoir, written with love, Avril 4 2003
Isabel Allende has made her name as a writer in the genre of magic realism, where fantastical events occur, often without warning. When her daughter Paula collapsed into an irreversibly coma due to a rare disease, Allende found herself desperate for a story to tell her dying daughter. This is the book that arose out of a mother's need to understand the past, the future, and the mysterious connection between the two. Allende tells of events before her birth, of Chilean politics and how it affected her famously political family, of falling in love, of becoming a writer, of motherhood, of her journey through Paula's illness - while embracing the spirituality that pervades her fiction. Surprisingly, the story of Allende's life bears remarkable resemblance, both in fact and in imagery, to her bestselling novel THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS. While sadness frames this memoir, the core of it pulses with life and faith. Beautifully written, with moments that will make you pause with admiration, this book is startling and powerful. Every fan of Allende should read this, both for the context it provides for her writing and for the force of her storytelling.
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