by Isabel Allende · Areté · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341885
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«Inés del alma mía» is a historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Areté in hardcover (368 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Inés Suárez, a 16th-century seamstress from Extremadura who crosses the Atlantic to look for her husband and starts a new life in America. In Peru she joins Pedro de Valdivia's expedition to Chile and shares with him the dream of founding Santiago, while they face the Mapuche and the uncertainties of the conquest.
The novel was published in August 2006 and its story is inspired by the real life of Inés Suárez.
The novel is suitable for readers of historical fiction and Hispanic American fiction, with an interest in the conquest of America and its female protagonists.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
