My Invented Country. A Memoir

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Flamingo/Harper Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 199 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small mark to top corner of cover.

Publishers Description: The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the worlds favourite writers. "The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do." Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents home in Chile. She left school at 16; and married Miguel Frias 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 Pinochets 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".

ISBN: 9780007163113