MY INVENTED COUNTRY Isabel Allende - A Memoir - CHILE

My Invented Country is the autobiography of writer Isabel Allende It is based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, which provides both a political and geographical framework of Chile.

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with minor wear; pages are clean and tanning with age; price marked on bottom edge of book with texta.

Publisher's blurb: The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers. "The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do." Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left school at 16; and married Miguel Frias at 19. She then juggled her work as a journalist, editor, advice columnist and television interviewer with looking after her two children. But when her cousin the Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated in 1973 in Pinochet's right-wing military coup, her life changed profoundly. It was too dangerous to stay in Chile; and she, her husband, and their two children fled to Venezuela. During her impoverished exile, she started writing “The House of the Spirits”.
Review
Allende's writing is so vivid we smell the countryside, hear the sounds, see the bright birds, the scorched earth, smell and even taste the soft fruit.' The Times 'She has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanity.' New York Times 'Allende is incapable of telling a bad story. She writes of her own experience with a kind of wild candour. Her heroically sustained narrative, her lovingly prepared plots and surprise inventions explode in an exaltation.' Independent

Book Details

Code: SKU1368

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 199

Published: 2003 by Flamingo, Australia

ISBN: 0007163118

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