Bibliograph

My invented country, a nostalgic journey through Chile, Isabel Allende

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My invented country, a nostalgic journey through Chile, Isabel Allende

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My invented country

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Isabel Allende

Sub title

a nostalgic journey through Chile

Summary

A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland by bestselling author Isabel Allende In My Invented Country Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth from Allende an overdue acknowledgment that she had indeed left home. My Invented Country, whose structure mimics the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance accrued between the author's past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants, and to all of us, who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions

Target audience

adult

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