Aphrodite

isabel allende

This guide to all things erotic is an international history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, and titillating recipes and advice.

Genres nonfictionfoodmemoircookingcookbooksbiographyspanish literaturebiography memoirromanceliterature

357 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1998

This edition

Format: 357 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2005 by Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780007205165
ASIN: 0007205163
Language: English

About the author

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.