My Invented Country - Isabel Allende

Autor: Isabel Allende

Editorial: HARPER COLLINS

Lenguaje: Español

ISBN13: 9780007163106

Reseña: The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the worlds favourite writers - is as exotic passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents home in Chile. She left school at 16 and married Miguel Frias at 19. She then juggled her work as a journalist editor advice columnist and television interviewer with looking after her two children. But when her cousin the Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated in 1973 in Pinochets right-wing military coup her life changed profoundly. It was too dangerous to stay in Chile and she her husband and their two children fled to Venezuela. During her impoverished exile she started writing The House of the Spirits. Based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country it became an international bestseller and everything changed again...