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Wakefields take what they want. MacBrides never surrender. For nearly a hundred years, a battle of wills between these two deeply-rooted Appalachian families has ended in defeat and heartache -- most often, for MacBrides. Now the MacBride name is barely more than a legend, and it's up to Gabby MacBride to deal with the pain of her childhood memories and also the challenge of a MacBride legacy she's only beginning to understand. That will mean coming...
2) La hojarasca
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"Con La hojarasca nació Macondo, población cercana a la costa atlántico colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal. En él transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extráo, un antiguo médico odiado por el pueblo. Un viejo coronel retirado, para cumplir una promesa, se ha empeádo en enterrarle frente a la oposición de todo el poblado y sus autoridades. Como en una tragedia...
3) Eva Luna
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En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su pa̕s a trav̌s de la memoria y la imaginaci̤n. La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nos̀tlgico ̀lter ego de la autora, que se llama a s̕ misma "ladrona de historias" precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo. Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino individual con el colectivo mediante una fulgurante prosa de car̀cter...
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"Portia Cuthcart and her two sisters find their way from Texas to Manhattan over the years, the heiresses to a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side. Portia is running from a bad divorce and the knowledge that she has always been a little bit different, a little bit strange: the talented cook who knew exactly what to serve on what occasion, even to the point of predicting events that hadn't even happened yet. But she doesn't cook anymore....
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