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Original Title:	De amor y de sombra
ISBN:	0553383833 (ISBN13: 9780553383836)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Irene Beltran, Francisco Leal, Beatriz Alcàntara, Evangelina Ranquileo, Pradelio Ranquileo, Digna Ranquileo, Mario (Of Love and Shadows), Rosa (Of Love and Shadows), Prof. Leal, Hilda Leal, Gustavo Morante
Setting:	Chile
Literary Awards:	Soaring Eagle Book Award for 10-12 (1990)

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Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán 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 émigrés. 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.

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Title	:	Of Love and Shadows
Author	:	Isabel Allende
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published April 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Magical Realism. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Novels

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This was a re-read. I read it several years ago, my pre-goodreads days and shortly after reading my favorite Allende book, The House of Spirits. I love most of her books and this was one was no exception. She truly is a superb storyteller. When I first read it, I know that I would have given it 5 stars, but since this was a re-read, I didnt think it was as compelling as before.One of my favorite quotes was advice for expatriates (and pretty much anyone really):All you will have is the present.

I couldn't wait to finish this one! (Read: get rid of it.) Isabel Allende's style is simply boring: nothing you haven't seen before (she's probably the Danielle Steel of the south), quite repetitive, describes everything to death leaving little to the imagination of the reader.Of course the history of her country and the rest of the Latin American countries living under dictatorship is very important it's the only thing giving this book value but I would prefer someone else to tell it to me.

One of those books that cannot be set aside to catch up on sleep.Allende's warm personality, her wisdom and experiences keepsthe reader mesmerized.

What to say about this. I began it yesterday evening, I finished it this afternoon. It is wonderful. Some beautuful descriptive phrases, tiny images which capture something powerful. Gatherings of water in cobbles being likened to shards of glass, the mouth of a cave in which lie horrors as of yet undiscovered likened to a groaning mouth. Simple, obvious phrases but all the more powerful for that. Everytime I read a translated novel, and sadly owing to my 'non-ployglotness' this is inevitable, i

If novelists are to deserve a voice, priority should surely be given to novelists who tell stories of the forcibly silenced. While I get the fact that The Disappeared is a tragedy of epic proportions, and the world needed to sit up and notice when it was endemic in South America, to choose the medium of a shmaltzy, 1980s, Lady-Diana-hairstyle romance to portray it is just the wrong thing to do. Its not equally tragic, but its somewhere on the scale.Allende could write. For sure. Im just not

It is always a shock when you read an awful book by an author you previously adored. I loved The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna in high school. Now I'm wondering if my teenaged critical abilities were unsound or if Of Love and Shadows is a departure from form.In theory, it may be possible to write about how a hero and a heroine are compelled to make love immediately after uncovering a mass grave, but Of Love and Shadows does not pull it off well. (Is it even theoretically possible? Does love

This book has really stuck with me since I read it in the late 1980'sIt's interesting because it's a historical tale that is still very much relevant today.The United States involvement in the military Coup that overthrew the then popular president Allende (This writer's Grandfather, I think...) is rightly seen as an event that is little known or understood by people in the US. If this event were better known or understood, it is felt, it would influence politics in the U.S. in a deep and