Description
Isabel Allende returns with a story that captivates from the first chapter. My name is Emilia del Valle introduces us to an unforgettable protagonist: Emilia, the illegitimate daughter of an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat, raised in San Francisco in 1866. Rebellious, brilliant and determined, Emilia breaks with the norms of her time to become a writer and journalist.
At just 17, she published adventure novels under a male pseudonym, but soon decided to experience the reality firsthand as a correspondent in the Chilean Civil War. There, she confronted the horrors of the conflict, searched for her lost father, and discovered a land marked by violence... but also by beauty and love.
A novel of passion, war, redemption and search for identity, which adds to the saga of the Del Valles that began with The house of the spiritsIdeal for those who love stories of strong women, intense historical contexts and deep emotions.
