Book Review: Isabel Allende's "Island Beneath the Sea" - By Naomi Daremblum (The New Republic)

In the hyper-macho world of Spanish-language letters, Isabel Allende, the undisputed Grande Dame of the Latin American novel, was the rare exception—a matriarch to García Márquez’s patriarch. At the center of her novels were strong, vibrant, meticulously written women, exotic repositories of magic who drove the narrative ... read more

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