by Isabel Allende · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466360760
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In 'My Invented Country', Isabel Allende lovingly and humorously reconstructs her life, the happiness she longed for, and her most cherished spaces. This book is a reflection of her love for Chile and the nostalgia she feels at being absent from her homeland. With intelligence and humor, Allende conveys the continuous presence of the past and the awareness of being a pilgrim and a stranger. Chile becomes a real and fantastic country, a stoic and hospitable land, of macho men and strong women, the setting of her childhood, where her original family, her grandparents' house, meals, and stories of infidelity come to life. A personal and endearing evocation of her homeland.
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.
