by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401375927
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«Afrodita» is Isabel Allende's essay on food and eroticism, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (323 pages, in Spanish).
Allende blends personal memoirs, folklore from various cultures, and moments from erotic literature to explore the link between food and desire. The book includes curious facts and recipes with supposed aphrodisiac powers, as well as historical anecdotes about figures like Nero or Catherine the Great, all narrated with humor and irreverence.
Published in 1997, the full subtitle is «Cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos». It includes illustrations by Robert Shekter and recipes by Panchita Llona.
For adult readers who enjoy gastronomy, eroticism, and Isabel Allende's ironic gaze.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
