by Isabel Allende · Rayo · tapa dura · ISBN 9780061161551
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«Inés del Alma Mía» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Rayo in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Inés Suárez, a sixteenth-century Spanish seamstress who crosses the Atlantic in search of her missing husband and ends up in a passionate relationship with Pedro de Valdivia, marshal of Francisco Pizarro. Alongside him she takes part in the conquest of Chile and the founding of Santiago, in a story that combines adventure, love and political ambition.
Published in September 2006, this is the first edition of the work; the original text is in Spanish.
For adult audiences, especially those who enjoy historical fiction and stories of the conquest of the Americas.
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.
