When Paola fell into a coma, her mother, the great Chilean writer Isabel Allende, began writing down in the pages of a notebook the story of her family, and her own story, to give as a gift to her daughter after she had overcome the tragic ordeal. But the illness extended for many months, and the writer's observations were transformed into this influential and revealing book about her personality.
Isabel Allende here exercises her amazing novelist talent to regain her life's livelihood and to take control of herself as a woman and writer. She also regains her family's livelihood and the history of her immediate homeland.
It is a self-portrait that is unique in its emotional impact, and at the same time an enjoyable re-creation of the sensuality of women of our time.
"Paola" is a book that will remain linked in the reader's mind with the momentum of an influential and unforgettable experience.
