Summary
Isabel Allende: After the Winter
In her latest novel "After the Winter", Isabel Allende starts from Albert Camus' famous quote - "In the middle of the winter I finally discovered that an invincible summer lives inside me" - weaving a story that, in the rhythm of a thriller, shows all the diversity of characters typical of today's America, who are in the "deepest winter of their lives": a Chilean woman, a young girl from Guatemala, an illegal migrant and a mature man, American Jewish.
The three of them survive a terrible snowstorm that falls on New York in the middle of winter, only to realize that after winter there is still room for unexpected love and the invincible summer that life always allows and provides when we least expect it. "After Winter" is probably the novel with the most American elements in the rich oeuvre of the writer from San Francisco and one of her most personal stories: an absolutely current novel that includes the problem of migrants and the current profile and identity of Americans shown through characters who find hope in love and the possibility of being given another chance.
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