by Isabel Allende · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686217
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«Retrato en sepia» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (372 pages, in Spanish).
In late nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle grows up in a comfortable environment with her grandmother Paulina, but suffers nightmares from a trauma that has erased her first five years of life. After the betrayal of the man she loves, she decides to unravel the mystery of her past in a story about memory, family, and the women of her era.
Second installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy. Edition from the Areté collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction, family sagas, and Latin American literature.
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.
