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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553273604

ISBN-139780553273601

eBay Product ID (ePID)151724

Product Key Features

Original LanguageSpanish

Book TitleOf Love and Shadows

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicVisionary & Metaphysical, Romance / Contemporary, Literary, Political

Publication Year1988

GenreFiction

AuthorMargaret Sayers Peden, Isabel Allende

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Item Length6.9 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN86-046164

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Allende skillfully evokes both the terrors of daily life under military rule and the subtler forms of resistance in the hidden corners . . . She can just as deftly depict loving tenderness as convey the high fire of eroticism. And when you've successfully mingled sex and politics with a noble cause, how can you go wrong?"--New York Time Book Review, "Allende skillfully evokes both the terrors of daily life under military rule and the subtler forms of resistance in the hidden corners . . . She can just as deftly depict loving tenderness as convey the high fire of eroticism. And when you've successfully mingled sex and politics with a noble cause, how can you go wrong?"-- New York Time Book Review

Dewey Decimal863/.64

SynopsisBeautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltran works as a magazine journalist--a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist emigres. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team--and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice--and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them. Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, "Of Love and Shadows" is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist--and peopled with those who dare to challenge it., Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.