by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401035241
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«Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle» is the romantic and historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
San Francisco, 1866. Emilia del Valle, daughter of an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat, grows up with her stepfather and defies social norms to write. She publishes adventure novels under a male pseudonym and, as a journalist, travels to Chile during the civil war with Eric Whelan to search for her father, discover love, and her identity.
It belongs to Isabel Allende's Del Valle saga, begun with La casa de los espíritus and continued with Hija de la fortuna and Retrato en sepia. The edition is part of the Éxitos collection.
For readers of historical, romantic, and adventure fiction, and for followers of Isabel Allende and the Del Valle saga.
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.
