by Isabel Allende · ISBN 9788466351508
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In 'My Invented Country', Isabel Allende explores her life and experiences after moving from Chile to the United States. With her characteristic narrative style, Allende reflects on identity, memory, and the sense of belonging, interweaving personal anecdotes with cultural observations. This book is an intimate meditation on uprooting and the reconstruction of a new home, where the author shares her experiences and reflections on life as an immigrant.
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.
