Name: retrato en sepia (in Spanish)
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Author: isabel allende
ISBN: 9788401329470

Type

Physical Book

Author

Isabel Allende

Publisher

Plaza y Janés

Language

Spanish

Pages

304

ISBN

8401329477

ISBN13

9788401329470

Edited in

España

Synopsis "retrato en sepia (in Spanish)"

una obra de extraordinaria dimensión humana que eleva la narrativa de la autora a cotas de perfección literaria.

narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, retrato en sepia es una magnífica novela histórica, situada a finales del siglo xix en chile, y el retrato de una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de hija de la fortuna y de la casa de los espíritus , novelas cumbres en la obra de isabel allende. el tema principal es la memoria y los secretos de familia. la protagonista, aurora del valle, sufre un trauma brutal que determina su carácter y borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. criada por su ambiciosa abuela, paulina del valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su época, pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre que ama y la soledad, decide explorar el misterio de su pasado. una obra de extraordinaria dimensión humana que eleva la narrativa de la autora a cotas de perfección literaria.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende was born in 1942, in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile and lived in various places during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in 1973 in Chile, she went into exile in Venezuela and since 1987 has lived as an immigrant in California. She defines herself as an "eternal foreigner."

She began her literary career in journalism, in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982 her first novel, The House of the Spirits, became one of the legendary titles of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have been international successes. Her work has been translated into forty languages and has sold more than seventy million copies, making her the best-selling Spanish-language writer.

She has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literature Prize in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in Denmark, in 2012, for her trilogy "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" and the Medal of Freedom in the United States, the highest civilian honor, in 2014. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Spanish-language writer awarded the medal of honor of the National Book Award, in the United States for her significant contribution to the world of letters.

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