Love and shadows

Isabel Allende soars in love and shadows above the sky of her homeland Chile, during and after the Pinochet dictatorship that tore apart society since the coup that ousted the democratic president in 1973. Although revolutions and military coups are strongly present in most Latin American works, Allende's writings have a special flavor that is not found in many translated novels. In a beautiful translation by the late Saleh Almani, the novel is now published in a new edition by Dar Al-Adab. A brief about Love and Shadows In 1979, in the town of Loncón, 60 kilometers from the Chilean capital Santiago, a secret grave was discovered in an abandoned mine, where the police hid the bodies of fifteen farmers from the local area. This real event forms the basis of Isabel Allende’s story, to depict a world of love and hope in the face of another world of violence and hatred, all in a magical atmosphere where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, ultimately creating a wonderful literary work and a tragic historical testimony, narrating a political crime and a passionate story between a brave, charming journalist and a mysterious leftist photographer. Love and Shadows is a story of astonishing human solidarity. Quotes from the novel Love and Shadows Love alone, with knowledge, makes us innocent. Justice is nothing but a forgotten term from a language that is no longer used, because this term has a form that suggests rebellion, like the word freedom. From pain and violence that crossed borders, a new homeland will emerge. About the author of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende is considered one of the most important female writers in the world, not only in Latin America. She is one of the most prolific writers overall, starting a new novel every January 8th. The author has been living in the United States since 1989 and obtained American citizenship in 1993.