by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401329807
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«De amor y de sombra» is a novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Chile during the military dictatorship, it narrates the relationship between Irene Beltrán, a young journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer committed to the resistance. Isabel Allende portrays political repression, fear and the search for truth in a context of violence and silence.
Originally published in 1984, this Plaza & Janés edition dates from 2003. The book won the Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima Prize for Published Work in 1985.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in love stories with a political and social backdrop.
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.
