by Isabel Allende · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788497592505
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«Retrato en sepia» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Debolsillo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Aurora del Valle, marked by a childhood trauma that erased her early years, grows up in nineteenth-century Chile under the care of her grandmother Paulina. After a romantic betrayal, she decides to reconstruct her past, unravel family secrets and delve into photography. Characters from 'Hija de la fortuna' and 'La casa de los espíritus' reappear.
The novel was originally published in 2000; this edition dates from 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas with a female protagonist, and for those already familiar with other novels by Isabel Allende.
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.
