My Invented Country - A Memoir (Paperback, New ed)

The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's 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 Pinochet's 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...

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2004
Authors:	Isabel Allende
Translators:	Margaret Sayers Peden
Dimensions:	197 x 128 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	199
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-716310-6
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-00-716310-X
Barcode:	9780007163106

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