Abstract
Since the publication of La casa de los espíritus in 1982, Isabel Allende has become a prolific writer of novels, a memoir, a collection of short stories, and novels for children and young adults. In her first novels, romance is mixed with the historical genre and elements of magical realism. Más allá del invierno (2017) is one of her most recent novels and one that so far has not been widely studied. For Kerri Muñoz it blends the testimonial genre with romanticism to criticize neoliberalism. For their part, Hoda Shabrang and Golnaz Karimi use Homi Bhabha’s concepts to propose that the three main characters have fluid identities. While I agree with both analyses, in this essay I explore the female characters of the novel, their parallelisms and interactions, and propose that even though Allende resorts to her well-known romanticism and depiction of Latin American historical events, Más allá del invierno also incorporates elements of the female crime thriller as it touches on topics of biopolitics, violence and care work in the United States.
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