In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende
Atria Books
<i>New York Times</i> and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.<BR><i>In the Midst of Winter</i> begins with a minor traffic accident&#8212;which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster&#8212;a 60-year-old human rights scholar&#8212;hits the car of Evelyn Ortega&#8212;a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala&#8212;in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz&#8212;a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile&#8212;for her...</BR>