Isabel Allende
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.96 | 29903 Users | 1404 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Retrato en sepia |
| ISBN: | 0060898488 (ISBN13: 9780060898489) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Aurora del Valle, Eliza Sommers, Tao Chi'en, Paulina del Valle, Lynn Sommers, Severo del Valle, Nivea del Valle |
| Literary Awards: | Premio de traducción literaria Valle Inclán Nominee for Margaret Sayers Peden (2001) |
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"Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete and inspiring as the real world it parallels … Allende’s enchanting historical universe keeps expanding and Portrait in Sepia is a new galactic jewel.” —Chicago Tribune A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases 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 horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past. Portrait in Sepia is an extraordinary achievement: richly detailed, epic in scope, intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.Itemize Of Books Portrait in Sepia
| Title | : | Portrait in Sepia |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 29903 Users | 1404 ReviewsCommentary Of Books Portrait in Sepia
Five stars are not enough !!!This book is a sequel to Daughters of Fortune which I read a number of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed. Unfortunately, this book didn't thrill me as much and I quit reading about 1/2 way through. The Characters from the first book have not aged so well and I found them considerably less interesting as they led their lives in late 19th century San Francisco compared to when we first meet them in Chile and the gold rush fields on mid-18th century California. Tedious......best describes the book.
I didn't get really into this book until the final 100-ish pages, because that's how long the story takes to start focusing on the life of the narrator instead of her family's tangled history, so unfortunately I spent most of the book wondering why I was supposed to care about these characters. One of the main themes of the book is memory and keeping people's stories alive, but I felt that the narrator's search to unlock the memory of the early years of her life could have been written in a more
Portrait in Sepia is Isabel Allende's middle book in a trilogy linking Daughter of Fortune to House of the Spirits. Sepia is the memoir of Aurora (Lai Ming) Del Valle, the granddaughter of both Paulina Del Valle and Eliza Sommers. The bulk of the story begins when Aurora is five years old, and Eliza Sommers, recently widowed, has decided to give Aurora to Paulina Del Valle to raise. Paulina ecstatic at finally having a girl to pamper agrees on the condition that Eliza no longer contacts the
Celebrating GrandparentsIf the power of the pen is to influence, and it is, this historical saga is a mighty sword! Beginning in 1860's revolutionary Chile, just before its separation from Spain in 1910, we travel to San Francisco, where Aurora, an orphan, is scooped up by the love of her grandparents. Her doting Chinese grandfather, Tao Chi'en, a physician, secretly rescues terrified children, transported in boat cages from China, to be sex-trafficked by exploiters in San Fran's China town.
Portrait in Sepia is Isabel Allende's middle book in a trilogy linking Daughter of Fortune to House of the Spirits. Sepia is the memoir of Aurora (Lai Ming) Del Valle, the granddaughter of both Paulina Del Valle and Eliza Sommers. The bulk of the story begins when Aurora is five years old, and Eliza Sommers, recently widowed, has decided to give Aurora to Paulina Del Valle to raise. Paulina ecstatic at finally having a girl to pamper agrees on the condition that Eliza no longer contacts the
My second book to read from this author. I enjoyed revisiting some of the same characters from Daughter of Fortune. The characters in her books never have easy lives, but I guess none of us do. I have learned a lot about Chile from reading her novels.
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