'A timely message about immigration and the meaning of home.'- 'People' 'A syntactically beautiful story with the twists and turns of a telenovela and warmth at its center.'- 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' In this vivid and fast-paced work of fiction, weaves a suspenseful love story, rendering central trio with generosity, spirit, and passion.'- 'National Book Reivew' ' continues to beguile readers with themes of social justice and love, tied together with a bit of magical realism. ' forthrightly embraces both harsh realities and whimsy, pleasure and pain in this buoyant adventure, a heartfelt story of resilience and respect that seems just the thing to help us through these darkest of days in our land of exiles.'- 'The Seattle Times' Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of-and our need for-love. As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love.

At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice. During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. About the Book 'Originally published in Spain in 2017 as Mâas allâa del invierno'-Title page verso.īook Synopsis New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers 'a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home' ( People).

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