Paula (54 page)

Authors: Isabel Allende

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Not many months have passed since teenager Alexander Cold followed his bold grandmother into the heart of the Amazon to uncover its legendary Beast. This time, reporter Kate Cold escorts her grandson and his closest friend, Nadia, along with the photographers from
International Geographic
on a journey to another remote niche of the world, in the Himalayas. The team's task is to locate its fabled golden dragon, a sacred statue and priceless oracle that can foretell the future of the kingdom.

In their scramble to reach the statue before it is destroyed by the greed of an outsider, Alexander and Nadia must use the transcendent power of their totemic animal spiritsâJaguar and Eagle. With the aid of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors, Alexander and Nadia fight to protect the holy rule of the golden dragon.

“Imagining this utopian land and animating Buddhist beliefs is clearly fun for Allende, and her joy translates onto the page.”

â
San Francisco Chronicle

FOREST OF THE PYGMIES

Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When
International Geographic
commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they headâwith Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crewâto the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches their camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlist the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of NgoubÃ©. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands.

“[C]aptures the romance of exotic travel. .Â .Â . [H]as at least two things Allende's adult fiction is known for: passion and politics.”

â
Philadelphia Inquirer

INÃS OF MY SOUL

In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, InÃ©s SuÃ¡rez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As InÃ©s makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Together the lovers will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage war against the indigenous Chileansâa bloody struggle that will change InÃ©s and Valdivia forever, inexorably pulling each of them toward separate destinies.

InÃ©s of My Soul
is a work of breathtaking scope that masterfully dramatizes the known events of InÃ©s SuÃ¡rez's life, crafting them into a novel rich with the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.

“This is one work Allende fans should not miss. .Â .Â . Allende's imagination .Â .Â . delivers the enchantment.”

â
Miami Herald

Three Allende titles are available in Spanish only, from Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers:
Cuentos de Eva Luna, De Amor y de Sombra,
and
La Casa de los EspÃritus.

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Praise

“Gripping. .Â .Â . Tells the story of her daughter's death in a moving but unsentimental way .Â .Â . transforming an otherwise devastating experience.”

âAlicia Borinsky,
Ms.
magazine

“Has all the lyrical intensityâeven on occasion, the profound joyâthat made her first novel,
The House of the Spirits
, so exciting.”

â
Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Isabel recounts a life of color and sweep. .Â .Â . An entertaining, glamorous book.”

âShirley Abbott,
Boston Sunday Globe

“This true story of Allende's life is even more wonderful, spirited and humorous than its imaginary rendition in her first novel.”

â
San Francisco Examiner

“A non-fiction masterpiece .Â .Â .
Paula
is a breathtaking tour de force.”

â
Buffalo News

“
Paula
comes to us in a shimmeringly beautiful translation by Margaret Sayers Peden. There is not a page in it without something wonderful.”

â
St. Petersburg Times

Copyright

Lines from “A Home in Dark Grass” (page v), from
The Light Around the Body
by Robert Bly. Copyright Â© 1964 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of the author and HarperCollins Publishers.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers.

P.S.
^â¢is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.

PAULA
. Copyright Â© 1994 by Isabel Allende. Translation copyright Â© 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Harper Perennial edition published 1996, reissued in 2008 and 2013.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Allende, Isabel.

[Paula, English]

Paula / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. â 1st ed.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â p.Â Â Â Â cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-017253-4

EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062254405

1. Allende, IsabelâFamily. 2. Allende family. 3. Authors, Chileanâ20th centuryâFamily relationships. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.