by Isabel Allende · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007241187
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«Inés of My Soul» is the historical and romantic novel by Isabel Allende, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (356 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the life of Inés Suárez, a Spanish seamstress who in the sixteenth century crosses the Atlantic to reunite with her husband. Widowed in Peru, she falls in love with Pedro de Valdivia and takes part with him in the conquest of Chile, the founding of Santiago and the campaigns against the Mapuche led by Michimalonko.
English edition of the novel «Inés del alma mía», translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. The original Spanish title was published in 2006.
For those who enjoy historical novels with a romantic slant set during the conquest of the Americas and featuring real women.
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.
