Autor: Isabel Allende

Tytuł: The Sum of Our Days

Rodzaj okładki: twarda z obwolutą

Stan: Używana

Rok wydania: 2008

Wydawnictwo: HarperCollins

Liczba stron: 300

Waga: 0.60 kg bez opakowania

Stan: BDB / BD PLUS
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Allende's most recent autobiography, My Invented Country (2003), told the story of her early years in Chile. Chronologically, though, The Sum of Our Days follows on from her first memoir, Paula, an account of the illness and death of her daughter in 1992 at the age of 28. The book, which begins with the scattering of her daughter's ashes, is written as a letter to Paula, bringing her up to date with family news in her absence, the same device she used in Paula, when she endured the year of her daughter's coma by keeping an account of all the news she wanted to impart when Paula woke. For the author, Paula has shed her human constraints and taken on the dimensions of a kind of benevolent spirit guide.

The Sum of Our Days is obsessive in its insistence on accuracy, since Allende has to live with the people she is writing about, her 'tribe' of children, inlaws, grandchildren and various family hangers-on. But in a prologue, she explains that the idea for a third volume of memoir came from her agent, who tells her: 'If it comes down to choosing between telling a story and offending relatives, any professional writer chooses the former.'

Allende, though, has tried to have it all ways. She also explains that the manuscript has been vetted by the people who appear in it, which must account for the fact that her accounts of her family members are unfailingly generous. For the most part, though, Allende's storytelling powers mean this has all the verve of a good soap opera and the reader quickly feels part of the family. That being the case, it seems a shame not to have any photographs to illustrate this volume, but anyone feeling short-changed can find a family album on Allende's website, which neatly completes this warm and humane picture of a writer's messy life.
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