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- Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2014Isabel Allende: Paula.
Isabel Allende is an excellent writer, but she spent many years as a refugee in a foreign country, and had to endure the ultimate tragedy - the loss of her child. Because for a great writer creating is her way of existence, the authoress was able to create a kind of family biography, while waiting for her daughter to wake up from a coma, and later accepting that such a moment would never happen.
There is a great wisdom in the book and much love and compassion. To be aware that we are born with a set of cards which we should play the best we can but cannot change them, is an unforgettable lesson for anybody's life. Great art is cleansing and life - strengthening.
To end with, just a remark about porphyria, the illness which killed Paula. It has a genetic origin, and to English - speaking readers would be known as the malady suffered by King George III when he lost America and was considered insane.Report PermalinkHelpful
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