Portrait in Sepia (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Isabel Allende
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Setting: Chile
- Principal Characters: Aurora del Valle, Paulina del Valle, Frederick Williams, Matias del Valle, Eliza Sommers, Tao Chi’en, Lynn Sommers, Lucky Sommers, Diego Dominguez, Nivea del Valle
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Women, Grandparents or grandchildren, Photography or photographers, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Chile or Chileans
- Locales: Chile
Isabel Allende is a controversial and outspoken writer, whose stories blend history and fiction in a breathless rushing narrative of Chilean life. Her true forte is the depiction of women in male regimes who often try invisibly to change the course of events, and whose power is very different in nature from men’s power. Born in Peru, Isabel Allende is the niece of Chilean President Salvador Allende, who was assassinated in a bloody coup in 1973. Not long after that, the novelist began to publish essays, memoirs, stories, and plays. “I think I have divided my life [into] before that...
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