![]() ![]() Latest historical novel, which covers a decade beginning in 1843, seems to spring from just such a fertile concoction.Įliza Sommers, the protagonist among Allende's rich cast of characters, is raised in the English colony of Valparaiso, Chile. ![]() All the extra stuff - all the details, the anecdotes - goes into a sort of literary compost pile. With all writers, perhaps particularly with former journalists, nothing really gets thrown out. Novels, then took a break from fiction in the mid-1990's and wrote two memoirs, ''Paula,'' about the death of her daughter, and ''Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses,'' a book Allende, a Chilean former journalist who at the time was living in exile in Venezuela, wrote several more Letter turned into ''The House of the Spirits,'' a best-selling novel that later became a movie. Sabel Allende's entry into the world of letters began abruptly in 1981 when, nearing 40, she started a letter to her centenarian grandfather. Isabel Allende's novel follows its foundling heroine from an English colony in Chile to the California gold rush. ![]()
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