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We asked some of our regular book critics what soon-to-be-published titles they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what they said.

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup

Beirut’s Dar Al Adab is set to release an Arabic translation of Isabel Allende’s new novel by Marc Jamal. The novel, ‘Violeta’, revolves around the life between two pandemics, starting with the Spanish flu and ending with the coronavirus. In letters full of purity and vivacity, Violeta tells her own…

Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, Isabel Allende suffered one of the greatest losses of her life: The death of her mother

Chilean author Isabel Allende heralded the young and female-dominated incoming government of President-elect Gabriel Boric on Monday and said it marked a much-needed changing of the guard of the Andean country's political leadership.

Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “Violeta,” an epic tale that transports readers across a century of South American history, through economic collapse, dictatorship and natural disasters like an earthquake and a hurricane

The renowned author on the unfinished task of replacing the patriarchy, swapping 24,000 letters with her mother, and why she gives all her books away