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Portrait in Sepia Isabel Allende

Portrait in Sepia By Isabel Allende

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende


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Summary

Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life.

Portrait in Sepia Summary

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle, suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

About Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende is the niece of the deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende. She has become an international figure over the last twenty years, and is the Spanish-speaking world's most signficant and high-selling author.

Additional information

GOR000679940
9780007121571
0007121571
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2001-10-01
320
N/A
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