![]() ![]() She delved into the erotic connections between food and love in Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. In Paula, Allende wrote her memoirs in connection with her daughter's illness and death. She explores the issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees in her novel, In The Midst of Winter. The Infinite Plan was her first novel to take place in the United States. She then wrote Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna, all set in Latin America. Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, has been translated into 27 languages, and was later made into a film. While living in Venezuela, Allende began writing her novels, many of them exploring the close family bonds between women. When he was overthrown in the coup of 1973, she fled Chile, moving to Caracas, Venezuela. Her uncle was Salvador Allende, the president of Chile. ![]() She married at the age of 19 and had two children, Paula and Nicolas. ![]() ![]() When her parents separated, young Isabel moved with her mother to Chile, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Lima, Peru, the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. ![]()
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