As of: January 22, 2024, 3:30 p.m
By: Sven Trautwein
Isabel Allende's books are regularly on bestseller lists.
Her new novel about the search for family security will be published in April.
Isabel Allende's books have been translated into more than 42 languages and sold around 75 million copies.
Her career spans both fiction and non-fiction, and she also created the Isabel Allende Foundation in memory of her daughter (who died in 1992) to empower women and girls worldwide.
With “The Ghost House” she became known to a wide readership in Germany.
Her new novel “The Wind Knows My Name” will be published in April, which impressively links two different paths in life.
Isabel Allende “The Wind Knows My Name”: That’s what the book is about
She became known throughout Germany with “The Ghost House”.
Her new novel “The Wind Knows My Name” will be published in April.
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At the age of six, Samuel has to leave his family on one of the children's transports to England.
But how does a child cope with the loss of their home and, above all, the separation from their family.
The uncertainty of whether and when they will be seen again.
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is six years old when his father and the family lose everything.
In desperation, Samuel's mother gets her son a place on a children's transport from Nazi-occupied Austria to England.
Samuel sets out on the journey alone, with nothing with him except a change of clothes and his violin - the burden of loneliness and uncertainty will stay with him for the rest of his life.
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With nothing more than a change of clothes and his violin in his luggage, Samuel sets off on a journey alone.
The burden of loneliness and uncertainty will stay with him throughout his life.
Almost eight decades later, in Arizona in 2019, Anita Díaz and her mother board a train.
Their goal: to escape the violence in El Salvador and find protection in the USA.
But their arrival is met with brutal immigration policies.
Anita, just seven years old, is separated from her mother at the border and taken to a camp.
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Lonely and afraid, far from everything familiar, she finds solace in Azabahar, a magical world that exists only in her imagination.
But how will she find her way back to her mother?
Isabel Allende connects two paths in life
The renowned author Isabel Allende has written an impressive historical narrative that depicts the interconnected lives of two young individuals in search of family security and a home.
She illuminates the sacrifices made by parents while writing a love letter to those children who survive despite unimaginable challenges - and who never stop dreaming and harboring hope.
The novel will be available in stores in German from mid-April.
Her novel “Violeta,” published in 2022, was once again very popular.
The novel is for anyone who wants to delve deeper into the works of Isbael Allende.
The book is also recommended for anyone who enjoys reading texts by Salman Rushdie, who received the German Book Trade Peace Prize 2023, or Margaret Atwood.
Isabel Allende “The Wind Knows My Name”
Translated by Svenja Becker
2024 Suhrkamp, ISBN-13 978-3-518-43200-6
Price: Hardcover, 335 pages
Isabel Allende: About the author
Isabel Allende, born in Lima in 1942, is one of the most sought-after writers internationally.
Her literary works are popular worldwide and have been translated into over 40 languages, selling millions of copies.
In 2018, Allende became the first person from the Spanish-speaking world to be honored with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for her life's work.
Isabel Allende's entire literary output has been published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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