Of Love and Shadows

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Of Love and Shadows is a novel by Isabel Allende that blends romance and political drama to explore love, memory, and resistance under a repressive Latin American dictatorship.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novel
adaptationDirector Betty Kaplan
adaptationLanguage English
adaptationReleaseYear 1994
adaptationType feature film
author Isabel Allende
countryOfOrigin Chile
explores conflict between personal and political life
impact of dictatorship on ordinary people
moral responsibility of witnesses
role of memory in confronting injustice
follows The House of the Spirits
genre Latin American literature
magic realism
political novel
romantic novel
hasAdaptation Of Love and Shadows (film)
linked to: Of Love and Shadows
hasSubject Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism

Latin American dictatorship
class differences
family relationships
social inequality
state violence
literaryMovement Latin American Boom
literaryStyle blend of romance and political drama
mainCharacter Francisco Leal
Irene Beltrán
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Spanish
originalTitle De amor y de sombra
linked to: Of Love and Shadows
partOf Isabel Allende bibliography
protagonistOccupation journalist
photographer
publicationPeriod 1980s
publisherOfFirstEdition Plaza & Janés
setting military dictatorship
unnamed Latin American country
theme disappearance
human rights abuses
journalism
love
memory
political repression
resistance
trauma

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Isabel Allende notableWork Of Love and Shadows
Of Love and Shadows hasAdaptation Of Love and Shadows (film)
linked to: Of Love and Shadows
Of Love and Shadows originalTitle De amor y de sombra
linked to: Of Love and Shadows
Violeta authorOfRelatedWorks Of Love and Shadows