Chilean Writer Isabel Allende-3/3

Chilean Writer Isabel Allende on Her Memoir, Her Family, Michelle Bachelet, Torture and Immigration
Bestselling Chilean writer Isabel Allende is world-renowned for her narrative craft and gripping stories that blend the mythical with the personal. She has written over a dozen books that have sold fifty-one million copies. Her debut novel in 1982, The House of the Spirits, chronicled four generations of a Chilean family through the tumult of that country's political history. It is a history that is intertwined with Allende's own. Her latest book is a memoir titled The Sum of Our Days. Allende joins us in our firehouse studio for an extended conversation about her writing, her family, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the treatment of immigrants in the United States and much more. [includes rush transcript]

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[janetheronheart]

Isabel Allende, you are gracious and courageous and have touched my life immensely.

Thanks so much!

Janet Heronheart

[SurreaLxoxo]

Isabel Allende, one of the best female writers !! Love her books =)

[u2bvideo]

Yeah..she is american alright! " I was lucky to be married to american" she tells us!

[joemarmer5493]

@RadioFreeWisconsin thank you. pretty ironic that IWantDemocracyNow is censoring that comment. win for free speech and capitilism

[RadioFreeWisconsin]

@joemarmer5493 Since IWantDemocracyNow tried to censor Joemarme5493's comment. I will re-state it:

we read one of her stories in spanish, and it wasnt bad. but then we watched an interview.

what a sexist communist bitch.... my parents lived in communist russia, and i have heard plenty of stories about the shit they had to go through because of communists like isabel allende.

[MyFerrito]

Some post here are very ofensive ! This one is the way of expresing of the persons from the political conservative right of Chile ! They dont have any respect as the others,and on not having had arguments, attack whitout base,excuse them, but they didn`t know another that the violence under the dictatorship of pinochet .

[joemarmer5493]

we read one of her stories in spanish, and it wasnt bad. but then we watched an interview.

what a sexist communist bitch.... my parents lived in communist russia, and i have heard plenty of stories about the shit they had to go through because of communists like isabel allende.

[morenodelaorilla]

We don't want communism in Chile anymore, Chile is ready to move to the right wing... Thank God, all those bad days of cummunism are gone.

[TheJea1967]

i love isabel allende she just tell the true and is simple woman

[trelwany]

BRILLIANT i love ur work ...u are a inspiration!

[nerdpantish]

I think she's one of the most impacting writers of our time and that in fifty years--more than that, really--she'll be remembered. I'm fourteen, and I've read fiver of her books. They're better than most of th classic novels I've read. She rivals Austen with her passionate stories about love and life and class and women.

[osteilsi]

you are not "Before" someone you are " IN FROT OF" Sofia