Paula
by Isabel Allende
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Author: Isabel AllendeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-24
ISBN: 0060927216
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: I have never recommended a book so highly and so frequently
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe no-one else has yet reviewed this book! I haven't stopped recommending it since I read it last year. One of the reviewers of this book referred to it as 'melodramatic in the best sense of the word' and this is the essence of why this book is so compelling. The stories contained in this novel provide an extended expression of a mother's love for her daughter and like a mother's love the book is passionate and simultaneously sentimental. The boisterous, funny and poignant images of Allende family life that are evoked are familiar to all. Yet the South American influence gives the story a colour, clarity and a depth that take it outside the realm of the domestic. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this novel. The sentimental will cry buckets, the passionate will recognise characters as themselves, the 'sensible' will hanker after a life lived with such extreme feeling and spirituality, the hard hearted will be shamed into compassion in the presence of a desolated mother at the death of a beloved and incredible daughter. NB. I read this novel whilst working on the Reception of the Institutional Banking department of the Commonwealth Bank, Sydney, Australia. My sincere apologies to those visitors who, on interruping my reading, were met with my tearful red eyed expression - Read it for yourselves and abandon any hopes of maintaining your composure.
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