by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401329470
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«Retrato en sepia» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Aurora del Valle grows up in San Francisco in the care of her grandmother Paulina, but she is unaware of much of her childhood. After a romantic disappointment, she decides to investigate her family's past and the secrets surrounding her. Memory and family ties shape this story set between California and Chile at the end of the nineteenth century.
The novel shares characters and universe with «Hija de la fortuna» and «La casa de los espíritus».
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas set in the nineteenth century.
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.
