I need to tell a story. It’s an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later. Why a particular story? I don’t know when I begin. That I learn much later.
In all my books there are strong women who have to overcome incredible obstacles to have their own destiny. I’m not trying to create models for other women to imitate. I just want my women readers to find the strength. And I want my male readers to understand what it is to be a woman—to find the sympathy.
~ Isabel Allende
I need to tell a story
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Tales of passion – Isabel Allende
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiY3lk5rbg
Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ifMRNag2XU
Isabel Allende – Zorro – https://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Isabel-Allende/dp/0007201982/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Allende+zorro&qid=1571884431&sr=8-1
She managed to tell a Zorro story from the point of view of his first girlfriend that matched the quote while still being faithful to the original Zorro by McCulley as well as the Tyrone Power movie and the TV show. Nothing retconned.
A good fun read in both the english and spanish versions.
Most boring book ever. I wanted to like it. I really, really did. And for six months it waited for me to finish it before I relized that wasn’t going to happen.
Were you expecting something like the Banderas movie, perhaps?
Allende, like most LatinAmerican name authors, is primarily litfic. For *that* genre Zorro is a fast paced action story. 😉