by Isabel Allende · Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780061161544
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«Inés of My Soul» is Isabel Allende's historical novel, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (352 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the life of Inés Suárez, a Spanish seamstress who crosses the Atlantic fleeing poverty and joins the conquest of Chile. There she begins a romance with Pedro de Valdivia and takes part in the founding of Santiago and in the conflicts with the Chilean indigenous people, a struggle that marks them both.
The novel was originally published in Spanish in 2006; this English edition, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, is from 2007.
For fans of historical fiction and conquest stories with a female protagonist, and for those seeking Isabel Allende in English.
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.
