by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janes · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401352072
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«El cuaderno de Maya» is the novel by Isabel Allende published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Maya Vidal, a nineteen-year-old American young woman who, after her grandfather's death and a youth marked by drugs, takes refuge on the island of Chiloé, in southern Chile. From her notebook, she narrates her adaptation to the place, her love life, and the episodes that led her there.
The work belongs to the Éxitos collection from Plaza & Janés, was published on 26 May 2011, and corresponds to edition number 3.
For readers aged fourteen and up; combines a coming-of-age novel and contemporary fiction with a female protagonist.
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.
