Portrait in Sepia

Authors: Allende, Isabel
Publisher: HarperVia
BISAC/Subject: FIC014000, FIC030000, FIC019000
ISBN: 9780063049659, Related ISBNs: 0063049651, 9780063021730, 9780063049659
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 400,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets

Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family.

The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal by the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

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