Isabel Allende Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Isabel Allende

Nobody wants to leave everything behind…and go on a dangerous journey that may end in a place where you are received with hostility…and you are not welcome…Sonia’s answer was: without solving the problems in the places of origin, people will get out and will desperately get out.’

Isabel Allende

I know that everything that happens in the book has happened before to women, or will happen or is happening. It is so possible that it’s no longer a dystopian world, it’s a possible world…a fabulous storyteller. So you become the women there in Gilead, you become the victim.

Isabel Allende

I had all this anger against the patriarchy, this feminist impulse,…then I read this book. I realized that there was an articulate language to express what I was feeling. It was a language full of humor, irony, and intelligence. I adopted the book as a manual almost for my work.

Isabel Allende

Since she was a child, she has been seeking for truth, for meaning. And this is reflected in everything she does in her life…when in doubt, I go to that book. And I find there answers for things that are the questions of life…in a way, it replaces religion, which I don’t have.

Isabel Allende

…an example of extraordinary historical fiction. When I read that book, I had a feeling of the research, which is not obvious in the book, it flows as part of the story. The reader never feels the obstacle of the research, the research is part of the narrative, is a part of life.

Isabel Allende

I dedicated this novel to Felipe Berríos del Solar, my best friend and the inspiration for the character of Camilo. Felipe works with the poor in a dump in the north of Chile; his religion is about compassion....He is full of doubts about the church, but has no doubts about his faith.