Alice Hoffman

Vuelve uno de los clásicos contemporáneos de la literatura sobre brujas. La novela que inmortalizaron en la gran pantalla Sandra Bullock y Nicole Kidman.¿Estás listo para sumergirte en este eterno hechizo de amor?Las mujeres Owens no hacian caso a las convenciones; eran tercas y obstinadas, y ser asi era su destino.Durante mas de doscientos años, a las mujeres Owens se las ha culpado de todo lo que salia mal en su pueblo.Gillian y Sally cargaron con ese estigma: desde niñas siempre fueron los bichos raros, el blanco de burlas, rumores y acusaciones. Ademas, parecia que sus tias fomentaban aquellos cuchicheos sobre brujeria, pues siempre tenian la casa a oscuras y preparaban esos brebajes de amor rodeadas de su sequito de gatos negros. Lo unico que Gillian y Sally anhelaban era huir de alli. Una lo haria casandose; la otra, escapando.Pero hay lazos inquebrantables y la magia siempre encuentra el camino de regreso a casa...Una novela exquisita sobre brujas, el amor verdadero, la vida familiar y los conjuros cotidianos. Todo un hechizo literario.Esplendida... Magia practica es una de las mejores novelas de Hoffman; en cada pagina resplandece su talento para transformar lo cotidiano en algo extraordinario, como si lo tocara con una varita magica. -NEWSWEEKEscrita con ligereza y un ritmo perfecto. Magia practica avanza con la cadencia de un cuento de hadas y golpea con la fuerza de una gran novela. -PEOPLE

'As intoxicating as the finest island rum' Independent From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel's fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of history's greatest artists. Set in a world of lush, exquisite beauty, The Marriage of Oppositesshows Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. The marriage of Rachel and Frederic is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love.

The beloved classic novel, the basis of the classic film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away. And eventually they do - one marries, the other runs as far from home as she can manage. Years later, however, tragedy will bring the sisters back together. And theyll find that no matter what else may happen, theyll always have each other. An enchanting tale of love, forgiveness and family, Practical Magic is beloved of readers of all ages. Book 3 in the Practical Magic series.*~*~*Readers love Practical Magic*~*~* A real pleasure Kate AtkinsonSimply brilliant Daily Mail [A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible Cosmopolitan What do you do when your long lost little sister shows up on your suburban front step a dead man in the Oldsmobile thats blocking your driveway? You help her bury him in your backyard, underneath a wilting lilac bush that will suddenly spring back to life, bearing masses of heady flowers that remind everyone who passes by of desires they thought theyd long since stifled VogueDark comedy and a light touch carry the story along to a truly Gothic climax, complete with heaving skies and witchery on the lawn New York TimesA scrim of magic lies gently over [this] fictional world, in which lilacs bloom riotously in July, a lovesick boys elbows sizzle on a diner countertop and a toad expectorates a silver ring...Publishers Weekly

«Alice Hoffman, la reina del realismo mágico, hace que sus lectores se embarquen en un viaje espiritual que celebra el poder y el placer de leer, y los anima a creer en lo imposible». KRISTIN HANNAH,

From the beloved, bestselling author of THE DOVEKEEPERS, a mesmerizing new novel about the electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decad

El lenguaje de Arnelle narra la vida de las hermanas Story, Elv, Meg y Claire, que viven felices en Long Island con su madre, Annie, que está divorciada. Pero el fatídico encuentro de Elv y Claire con un siniestro desconocido cambiara sus vidas para siempre. Elv cada dia esta mas y mas sumergida en el cuento de hadas que ha inventado. Annie no comprende el sufrimiento de su hija y, cuando por fin se da cuenta, ya es demasiado tarde. Elv tendra que vivir con las decisiones que ha tomado y las tragicas consecuencias de sus acciones afectaran a toda su familia. ¿Que hace una madre cuando uno de sus hijos pierde su camino? ¿Como salva a una hija sin sacrificar a las demas? ¿Hasta que punto puede llegar el amor, y hasta donde puede llevarte? Estas son las preguntas que plantea esta luminosa novela. El lenguaje de Arnelle es un relato sobre el paso de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, pero es tambien una cronica familiar, y una historia de amor y deseo. Es un retrato de todo lo extraordinario y cotidiano que viven las hermanas al convertirse en mujeres. Hay pocos escritores que capten el poder de redencion del amor como Alice Hoffman hace. Con El lenguaje de Arnelle nos ofrece un maravilloso relato que nos hara mas conscientes de la fragilidad y la belleza de vivir.

Alice Hoffman teje una historia mágica e imponentemente original que traza la vida de tres mujeres enamoradas del hombre equivocado: Headstrong Madeleine Séller se encuentra irresistiblemente atraída por el novio de su hermana; Frieda Lewis, hija de un doctor y fugitivo, se convierte en la musa de una malograda estrella del rock; y la hermosa Bryn Evans quiere casarse con un ingles mientras esta secretamente obsesionada por su exmarido. El corazon de la novela es Lucy Green, que se culpa de un accidente de la que fue testigo a la edad de doce años.

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences. The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sisters wedding. Their mothers illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegrooms conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens...

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect. ''The Story Sisters'' charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart''s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, ''The Story Sisters'' sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.

As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them.All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away. And eventually they do - one marries, the other runs as far from home as she can manage.

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeeperscomes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel's fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of history's greatest artists. Set in a world of lush, exquisite beauty, The Marriage of Oppositesshows Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. The marriage of Rachel and Frederic is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love.

Convencida de que el destino y el amor existen, la noche en que muere su padre la joven Arlyn decide enamorarse del primer hombre que se cruce en su camino. El elegido será John Moody, alguien radicalmente opuesto a ella. La historia de estos personajes, y la de todos a los que amaron, sus anhelos y sus decepciones nos introducen en un universo terrible y magico. Confesiones bajo el cielo es una obra elegante y luminosa llena de autentica originalidad.

She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived . . . There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something.Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes overwhelmed with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future shed once taken for granted.But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more . . .What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one womans journey towards happiness and the power of love, family and fate.A great atmospheric storyteller . . . Her books are a real pleasure Kate Atkinson Alice Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds Jodi Picoult

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth century. Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her familys true identityand her familys secrets are made publicshe confronts a world shes never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Appearing on several "best book" lists and infused with the rich context of history and faith, Incantation is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance that Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry described as "Magical and spellbinding.... Painful and exquisitely beautiful."

She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived . . . There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something. Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes overwhelmed with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future she'd once taken for granted. But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel

Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic seriesa spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from lovebut all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in dangerthe curse is already at work.