High praise for this excellent novel from Allende. I have read several of her books, most recently Ines of My Soul, and I have enjoyed all of them but of the ones I have read, Of Love and Shadows is the best of the lot.
This is basically the story of Irene Beltran, the unconventional daughter of a wealthy family, and Francisco Leal, son of Spanish exiles, who are reporter and photographer for a women's magazine in an unnamed Latin American dictatorship. After doing a story on a young woman who apparently has some paranormal skills, they end up discovering a mass grave where the bodies of people tortured and murdered by the police have been dumped. As their love grows, Irene and Francisco struggle to bring the men responsible to justice. But can they prevail over the corrupt and immoral military dictatorship that is out to cover up the crimes?
Allende does a masterful job of painting this tapestry of a novel. She provides background on all of the major characters in the books so the reader feels as if they know them intimately. It was a great love story of Irene an Francisco portrayed against a very horrific background. Some of this was pretty hard to take but overall a wonderful novel that I would highly recommend!
This is basically the story of Irene Beltran, the unconventional daughter of a wealthy family, and Francisco Leal, son of Spanish exiles, who are reporter and photographer for a women's magazine in an unnamed Latin American dictatorship. After doing a story on a young woman who apparently has some paranormal skills, they end up discovering a mass grave where the bodies of people tortured and murdered by the police have been dumped. As their love grows, Irene and Francisco struggle to bring the men responsible to justice. But can they prevail over the corrupt and immoral military dictatorship that is out to cover up the crimes?
Allende does a masterful job of painting this tapestry of a novel. She provides background on all of the major characters in the books so the reader feels as if they know them intimately. It was a great love story of Irene an Francisco portrayed against a very horrific background. Some of this was pretty hard to take but overall a wonderful novel that I would highly recommend!
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