A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist, Isabel Allende, the author with over 50 million books sold worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits , was based on her Chilean childhood, include the deeply moving Paula to explore the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochets military coup. Now, in The Sum of the Days , based on Allendes own journals, we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years.