My Invented Country: A Memoir

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Author Isabel Allende
Format Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date 2004-03-01
Pages 240
ISBN-13 9780007163106

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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 Frías 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…

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Weight 0.168 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 13 × 19.7 cm
Author

Isabel Allende

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint

HarperPerennial

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780007163106

Publication Date

2004-03-01

Publication Year

2004

Pages

240

Country of Publication

GB

Language

English

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