THE SPIRITS OF ISABEL ALLENDE Inspired by her daughter, the author stares death and life in the face

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: May 24, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

"I think it's destiny."

Isabel Allende doesn't hesitate to name the force behind her daughter's death. "We are given a set of cards," the Chilean author says. "In Paula's case the cards were marked."

Allende is no stranger to the subject of destiny. It is the engine that drives her fiction, the link between the magic and the realism that her novels are now famous for. Beginning with "The House of the Spirits," Allende has staked her narrative claim on mystical territories where the dead matter-of-factly commingle with the living, where green hair and telekinesis and repressive Latin ...

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