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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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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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Sad, beautiful, startling, Jui 30 2002
This is such a beautiful book, a beautifully written story of Isabel Allende's life and the life of her family. I was not expecting the book to be what it was in this context - there are a lot of family stories and stories about her life in Chile. The book is fascinating, but is also quite sad as well. Indeed there are many passages about Allende's daughter Paula being in a coma and later in a vegetative state, and these passages, although well written are often times very emotionally difficult to read. My heart goes out to the author - it must have been an incredibly difficult book to write. I found the book easier to read a bit at a time, and as I was reading it in the original Spanish, this was not difficult. It is well worth reading. I waited too long to read this book because I thought that it was going to be nonstop depressing news of Paula in the hospital and for the most part, it really isn't, but it is sad and it probably will make you cry at the end, but go for it anyway - it's good to have feelings to know that you are alive, right?
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Latin Emotion at its Finest, Jui 13 2002
Isabel Allende has created a masterpiece in this story meant to capture for her ailing daughter the history of her family. What Allende does is take her grief and pain of her daughter's illness and pour it out onto the page so that we see her soul, we ache along with her, we grieve and smile and laugh as she labors through Paula's silence. She has given us a gift--she gave us Paula to know, to love, and to remember. To see inside a writer's soul like one can with this story is to know that this writer has given her all.
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A book of unconditional Love, Jui 2 2002
I could relate to this book as my son had been in a coma and I know how I felt. When I first started to read this book the power went off our area so I read it by flashlight (I know how good her other books are). At first all I could do was cry but I needed to get these feelings out.This is the most horrible thing that anyone can go through. Isabel has wrote this so good and yet you can feel the love coming thru. This is a must read.
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