Rikkie Degenaar Ordre des livres (chronologique)

One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all others, this is the story of a hundred-year life - of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Bearing witness to a century of history, it is a life shaped by the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humour will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a passionate meditation on womanhood. Isabel Allende begins by recalling her childhood, where she witnessed her mother, abandoned and voiceless, support three children. This experience ignited her fierce determination to fight for the life her mother couldn't have. As she matured in the late 1960s, Allende embraced the second wave of feminism, finding a sense of belonging among female journalists who boldly addressed women's issues. Throughout her life, she has witnessed the movement's achievements and navigated three passionate marriages, learning to grow alongside a partner, recognize when to step away, and embrace her sexuality. Allende reflects on what nourishes the souls of feminists and all women today: safety, value, peace, resources, connection, bodily autonomy, and love. Despite progress, she acknowledges that much work remains. Through her words, she hopes to inspire future generations, urging them to continue the fight for equality and empowerment, just as previous generations have done for them. This book serves as a beacon for daughters and granddaughters, encouraging them to carry on the essential work still ahead.

Internationally bestselling author of The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds

Een alternatief therapeute en haar dochter krijgen te maken met enkele samenhangende moorden in San Francisco.

Maya a 19 ans, et déjà toute une vie derrière elle. Une enfance heureuse avec ses grands-parents dans une belle maison de Berkeley où règnent l'amour, la culture, l'indulgence. Puis la mort de son grand-père adoré, et le début d'une longue descente aux enfers. La drogue, l'alcool, les mauvaises rencontres et les nuits de débauche... Maya se laisse prendre dans les filets de malfrats de Las Vegas. Traquée, poursuivie par des agents du FBI et des dealers, elle finit par trouver refuge sur une île au sud du Chili, terre natale de sa grand-mère, qui va tout mettre en oeuvre pour sauver sa petite-fille et lui redonner des raisons de vivre.

Alcuni hanno visto sparire amici e parenti, altri hanno saggiato gli artigli delle sevizie nelle carni, altri ancora hanno finto improvvise amnesie per salvarsi: chi ha vissuto nell’Argentina funestata dalla dittatura sa bene che la frattura tra passato e presente, tra ragione e immaginazione, è difficile da sanare. Come Laura, la protagonista della vicenda che dà il titolo a questa raccolta di racconti: l’incontro casuale con il suo aguzzino ventisei anni dopo la prigionia la getta nell’angoscia, ma quando scopre che adesso è lei a fargli paura, riesce finalmente ad affrontare i sensi di colpa e i fantasmi della memoria. O come Gabi, che aspetta ansiosa le lettere del suo fratello gemello, fuggito o desaparecido, senza rinunciare alla speranza. Spesso in queste storie, dopo tanta angoscia e incertezza, si schiude la possibilità di un riscatto e di un nuovo inizio. Può nascere dalla dolorosa accettazione di un amore mai sopito per un uomo terribile; da un incontro fortuito in treno che permette di riappropriarsi di un’identità rubata; dal pentimento di una sequestratrice, generato dall’affetto per la bambina rapita.

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home.Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits, was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works include the deeply moving Paula - a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma - and the fascinating My Invented Country, which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in The Sum of the Days, we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends - her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 - when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends - kindred spirits - central to her life.The book is particularly illuminating and revealing about her working life - she must begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a year.

Inés Suarez est une héroïne au destin extraordinaire et peu connu. Au milieu du XVIe siècle, cette jeune et belle couturière participe à la conquête du Royaume du Chili. Embarquée pour le Nouveau Monde sur les traces de son mari parti chercher fortune de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique, elle apprend sa mort en accostant au Pérou après une traversée mouvementée. Une nouvelle vie commence : Inés se joint à une troupe de conquistadors en route pour le Chili... Pedro de Valdivia, puis Rodrigo de Quiroga : deux autres hommes, deux autres chances pour construire Santiago et s'acharner à conquérir un nouveau Royaume. Dans ce roman épique, l'amour accorde une trêve à la violence d'une époque historique inoubliable.