{"product_id":"of-love-and-shadows-by-isabel-allende","title":"Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781471173455\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScribner UK, May 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e336 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e**\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe moving novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe House of the Spirits \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Japanese Lover**\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIrene Beltrán\u003c\/span\u003e is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist – an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing – she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrancisco Leal\u003c\/span\u003e, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey are an inseparable team, and – despite \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIrene’s\u003c\/span\u003e engagement to an army captain – form a passionate connection. When an assignment leads them to uncover an unspeakable crime, they are determined to reveal the truth in a national overrun by terror and violence. Together they will risk everything for justice – and ultimately to embrace the passion that binds them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for Isabel Allende's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOf Love and Shadows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘[Allende] can just as \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003edeftly depict loving\u003c\/span\u003e tenderness as convey the high fire of eroticism. And when you’ve successfully mingled sex and politics with a noble cause, how can you go wrong? \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAllende is a born storyteller\u003c\/span\u003e’ \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘The people in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOf Love and Shadows\u003c\/span\u003e are real, their triumphs and defeats are so faithful to the truth of human existence, that we see the world in miniature. This is \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eprecisely what fiction should do\u003c\/span\u003e’ \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘We are by turns \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eenchanted and entertained\u003c\/span\u003e . . . Allende has married the world of magic and political evil most credibly’ \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLA Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47302505758882,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/download_65c98605-293a-4e31-9174-0b4fda018166.jpg?v=1780313941","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/of-love-and-shadows-by-isabel-allende","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}