by Isabel Allende · Rayo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780061161568
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«Inés del Alma Mía» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Rayo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Inés Suárez, a 16th-century Spanish seamstress who crosses the Atlantic in search of her husband and, once widowed, joins Pedro de Valdivia in the conquest of Chile. She takes part in the founding of Santiago and, in her old age, recalls her life in a story addressed to her daughter, marked by passion and war against the indigenous people.
The work was originally published in 2006, and this Rayo edition is from August 2007. It is catalogued as historical fiction and romance.
An option for reading groups and for readers of historical and romantic fiction with a female protagonist.
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.
