Reviews
The San Diego UnionIsabel Allende always revives one's faith in the intoxicating power of sheer old-fashioned storytelling., The Orlando Sentinel Full of grace and passion...love and revenge...enchanting...One could go on reading her stories forever., Sarah SheardThe Toronto StarThe fabulous scale of narrative, the characters as darkly pungent as coffee tinged with blood, charge her stories with a physicality and power that will leave the readers checking for bruises on their thighs., The San Diego Union Isabel Allende always revives one's faith in the intoxicating power of sheer old-fashioned storytelling., The Wall Street Journal Gratifyingly ambitious...truly captivating...There is a richness in this book -- and it is, in its finest moments, a richness not only of language but of life., Jane Urquhart Quill & Quire What is most admirable about this collection is Allende's ability to portray a world in which the ordinary and the miraculous, the natural and the supernatural, the political and the particular not only co-exist but actually affect one another., San Francisco ChronicleAllende again shows her brilliance as a storyteller...[who] grips us from first sentence to last., The Wall Street JournalGratifyingly ambitious...truly captivating...There is a richness in this book -- and it is, in its finest moments, a richness not only of language but of life., San Francisco Chronicle Allende again shows her brilliance as a storyteller...[who] grips us from first sentence to last., Gillian StewardThe Calgary HeraldThe stories are like opulent parables...I, for one, sense I will be going back to this book again and again just to be with them., Leigh Allison Wilson The Washington Post Allende is a real talent, an amazingly prolific one. In her stories there are palpable life and death risks, the risks of passionate love, the risks of passionate belief, of convictions and honor., Sarah Sheard The Toronto Star The fabulous scale of narrative, the characters as darkly pungent as coffee tinged with blood, charge her stories with a physicality and power that will leave the readers checking for bruises on their thighs., Gillian Steward The Calgary Herald The stories are like opulent parables...I, for one, sense I will be going back to this book again and again just to be with them., Leigh Allison WilsonThe Washington PostAllende is a real talent, an amazingly prolific one. In her stories there are palpable life and death risks, the risks of passionate love, the risks of passionate belief, of convictions and honor., The Orlando SentinelFull of grace and passion...love and revenge...enchanting...One could go on reading her stories forever.