Bibliograph

Portrait in sepia, by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

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Portrait in sepia, by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Portrait in sepia

Responsibility statement

by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Summary

With her earliest memories erased by a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised amid great wealth in Chile by her shrewd, commanding grandmother. But her nights are tormented by a nightmare set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Now, reaching womanhood and thrust into a marriage that quickly leaves her disillusioned, she begins a search for her missing years and unwinds a twisted saga linking three generations of a powerful family to a courageous Chinese physician and Eliza Sommers, a protagonist of Allende's Daughter of Fortune, in a tale that explores the complexity of passion, the power of memory, and a woman's emerging self

Target audience

adult

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