Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. 'Portrait in Sepia' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from 'Daughter of Fortune' and 'The House of the Spirits', two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection 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 terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.
ALLENDE ISABEL
Novelista, feminista y filántropa, es una de las autoras más leídas del mundo y ha vendido más de 77 millones de copias de sus veintiséis libros en cuarenta y dos idiomas. Además de su labor como escritora, Isabel dedica gran parte de su tiempo a causas de derechos humanos. Ha recibido quince doctorados honoris causa, fue incluida en el Salón de la Fama de California y recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, el PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award y el Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. En 2014, el presidente Barack Obama le otorgó la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, el honor civil más alto del país, y en 2018 recibió la Medalla por la Contribución Distinguida a las Letras Estadounidenses de la Fundación Nacional del Libro. Vive en California con su esposo y sus perros, uno de los cuales se llama Perla.
