5/22/2023 0 Comments Isabel allende's daughter paula![]() ![]() ![]() The cause of Paula's illness was porphyria, an ancient and little-understood disease that Paula inherited from her father.Īllende's latest book, Paula, which began as a letter to her daughter while Isabel sat vigil at her bedside in a Madrid hospital, evolved into a search of Isabel's own-if not for God, then for a reason to go on living after all her maternal love and will power failed to bring her comatose daughter back to the world of the living.īy one of the coincidences that seem to shadow Isabel Allende in private life as well as in her writing, she was in Madrid to promote her novel The Infinite Plan the day Paula suffered violent seizures and sank into a coma. ![]() "I am seeking God, but he seems to elude me," Isabel Allende's daughter Paula wrote her mother shortly before she suffered a seizure and fell into a coma from which she never recovered. In her newest book, 'Paula,' novelist Isabel Allende searches for ancient meaning in the modern suffering of her daughter ![]()
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