ربما وكغالبية البشر في حالات انعزالهم وانغلاقهم يعنقدون انهم وافكارهم وعاداتهم وثقافتهم، محور هذا الكون واساسه، وما ان يضطر لمغادرة هذه القوقعة حتى يُصدم بأن العالم اوسع من واقعه وخياله!
هكذا كانت إزابيل الليندي تظن لذلك نقلت واقع بلدها الام تشيلي وتفاصيل طفولتها وما بعدها بدقة.
وكم هو التطابق بين ما وصفته من عاداتهم وثقافتهم بما نعيشه وعشناه في بلدنا!
وكأنني اقرأ عن مدينة او قرية واقعه في احد جوانب السعودية، مع اختلافات طفيفة، الا ان الجوهر واحد.

هذا كتاب سيرة ذاتيه تحكي فيه الكاتبة عن نفسها وبلدها والسياسة والثقافة والعادات والتمرد، وكيف تكون رحلة الحياة التي تصنعنا وتخرج منا شخصيتنا المتفردة .

Indraznesc sa cred ca e o carte de memorii atipica, scrisa in stilul caracteristic al Isabelei Allende, care m-a ajutat sa inteleg mai bine cum evenimentele politice si sociale din Chile au format-o si au inspirat-o sa scrie cartile pe care le apreciez atat de mult: Casa Spiritelor, Eva Luna, Portret in Sepia etc.

Para los que no somos de ningún sitio, o de muchos a la vez. Y para los que nos gusta la novedad porque no tuvimos otro remedio, pero anhelamos una casa y raíces. Ella es la mejor.

This obviously hit close to home, as it revolved around Chile, in some ways my country (while reading, you‘ll find out there’s nothing like „my“ country). I‘d still recommend it to everyone who doesn’t know where they belong or if such a place even exists.

Ok, I'll be real: I didn't actually read the last two chapters. But I read the rest and it was really hard and there is no way that I am going to finish those chapters unless they are assigned, which they won't be. Reading in Spanish was really hard and time consuming, but I did it!

Anyways, I have to do homework now. Its boring. Sorry I cannot be more interesting rn.

I really liked this one as it reveals the woman behind the books she'd written. Much better than The Sum of Our Days, which read like some kind of melodrama at some point. This is more of a recollection than a memoir, and it was interesting to read about Allende's formative years and what influenced her fiction.

If you're a fan of her fiction books, this is the one nonfiction of hers that I'd recommend.

I rarely read memoirs but I decided to to read this one because of the author, and most importantly, because she writes of my native Chile. I felt like I was taking the journey with Allende and the anecdotes of typical Chileans made me homesick. I'm not sure if other readers would appreciate the book as much as another Chilean but Allende shares so much more than a memory of country of long ago. She shares her joys, challenges, and sorrow, in which all of us can, in some way, relate.

استمتعت بفقرات و فقرات أخرى لم تستهويني ؛يحتوي الكتاب على تفاصيل دقيقة لتشيلي ، من الممكن أن تشعر ببعض الملل بها و لكن في نهاية المطاف ستشعر بونس و دفء في هذا الكتاب لانها يحتوي على صدق و شفافية .
أحببت الفقرات المتعلقة بالكتابة و الأرواح و قراءة الكتب .
ستشعر بالونس في ذلك الكتاب بسبب أسلوب السرد السلس و ذلك دلالة على مهارة ألليندي في السرد ،حكاءة ماهرة .

قراءتها بترجمة عبد الحليم جمال، من اصدار الرواق. ترجمة جميلة و منمقة.

أحببت الهوامش جداً شكراً للمترجم و المحرر و التدقيق اللغوي.

boring, full of stupidities...(like asking what is the second world, if so many countries are in the first or third world...well, how about grabbing a encyclopedia to find out instead)
I was in Chile when I was reading the book and couldn't bear to hear all those things that didn't apply to Chile anymore, but she still told them, even though they were ages old...
I really like other books by her (La casa de los espiritus or Paula) but this was really unbearable...

4,5 ⭐️ Tantas cosas de las que menciona la autora son tan ciertas, algunas tristes, otras tantas graciosas pero para mi todas reales, siento muchas cosas como ella. Y esa nostalgia por la patria, está muy latente pero aún así no sabría si volver.

I enjoyed this, and it includes many memorable quotations, a few of which I added to my blog. I liked it enough that I immediately checked out of the library a few books she notes in this one, including an earlier memoir, Paula.

This book was on the recommended reading list for our upcoming trip to Chile. About 2/3 in the author notes, "Well, I've gone way off on a tangent, and I need to pick up the main thread of this account, if there is any thread in all this meandering." This sentence describes the book completely and I found it tiresome. The last sentence of the paragraph..."I've tried to arrange my thoughts according to themes or periods of my life, but it's seemed artificial to me because memory twists in and out, like an endless Moebius strip." True. And that sentence is artfully written. In my opinion, the book as a whole was not.