My Invented Country

Informationen zum Autor Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of nine novels, including Inès of My Soul , Daughter of Fortune , and Portrait in Sepia . She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Isabel Allende lives in California. Klappentext Enthralling and inspiring biography of the Chile-born novelist. Allende paints a colourful picture of her homeland, detailing events such as the assassination of her cousin, the president Salvador Allende, in Pinochet's military coup, with the same skill found so readily in her novels. "She has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity" "New York Times" Zusammenfassung The life story of Isabel Allende – one of the world's favourite writers – is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Allende, Allende Isabel
• Assisted by: Margaret Sayers Peden (Translation), Sayers Peden Margaret (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780007163106
• ISBN: 978-0-00-716310-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, Isabel Allende, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form