![]() ![]() “I came with the idea that I would stay in a very nice hotel, or whatever. “I decided to come back and spend a week with him and get him out of my system,” she continued, punctuating her recollection with a lot of laughter. Back home, she couldn’t forget William Gordon. ![]() She resumed her book tour in Puerto Rico and returned to Venezuela, where she had been living even though she was a citizen of Chile. ![]() “I thought, ‘Well, I can have a fling, why not? I have nothing to lose,’” she said in an exclusive interview with. Isabel, laughing, said she “fell in lust.” They spent the night together. He was a fan.Īfter her presentation, he met Isabel, and something sparked between them. In the audience was William Gordon, a San Francisco Bay Area attorney literate in Spanish and who had read Isabel’s books. Yet, in October of 1987, she found herself in San Jose, California, on a book tour initiated by a San Jose professor of literature who was teaching her books. She gave no thought to immigrating to the United States. By 1987, when she was 45 years old and a divorced mother of two, Isabel Allende had established herself as a prominent novelist based in Venezuela, writing in Spanish stories that exemplified the magical realism genre. ![]()
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