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  2. Isabel Allende challenges anti-immigrant rhetoric, book bans ...

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    Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...

  3. Isabel Allende - Wikipedia

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    Isabel Angelica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American [6] [7] writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially ...

  4. The House of the Spirits - Wikipedia

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    The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. [2] It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom.

  5. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    Isabel Allende: Sexual content 1982 71 97 73 The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins: Religious viewpoint, dark themes/violence, unsuited to age group 2008–2010 12 — — I Am Jazz: Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group 2014 13 — — I Know Why the ...

  6. Isabel Allende’s new novel is much-needed reminder of ... - AOL

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    Allende’s new novel, “The Wind Knows My Name,” tells the story of Anita, a 7-year-old blind girl who is taken by her mother to the United States to escape from El Salvador’s gang violence ...

  7. Million-selling novelist Isabel Allende has a deal to write 3 ...

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    After 40 years of publishing and millions of book sales worldwide, Isabel Allende is ready to become a children's author. Allende has a deal with Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young ...

  8. The House of the Spirits (film) - Wikipedia

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    Author Isabel Allende received numerous offers from producers and agents to adapt her novel The House of the Spirits upon publication in 1982, but did not agree to option the work until Danish filmmaker Bille August convinced her with his vision for the film. [5] In January 1993, Miramax acquired North American distribution rights for the film. [6]

  9. Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name ... - AOL

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    Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles in her latest novel ...