Isabel Allende
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| Title | : | Inés of My Soul |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 321 pages |
| Published | : | November 7th 2006 by Harper (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans—the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.
Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.
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| Original Title: | Inés del alma mía |
| ISBN: | 0061161535 (ISBN13: 9780061161537) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Peru (Perú)(Peru) Chile |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 21281 Users | 1753 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Inés of My Soul
Having read and loved The House of Spirits(possibly my favourite book of all time), I've come to expect only the best from Isabel Allende.She is, I believe, one of the few authors whose descriptive, multi-layered and hypnotic prose make the reader feel as if they were actually living and experiencing the heart and soul of her stories instead of just merely reading it.And with this book, it's no different.Inés of my soul chronicles the life of real life sixteenth-century heroine, Doña InésIsabels writing is always expressive and filled with sly references to characters foibles and faults. The central character is complex but hard to connect with. Her courage is exemplary yet as the matriarch of a country she fails in several key ways to inspire.
Inés del alma mía = Ines of my soul, Isabel AllendeInés of My Soul (Spanish: Inés del alma mía, 2006) is a historical novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. The novel consists of an elderly Inés Suárez writing a memoir of her life. She narrates about her relationship with Pedro de Valdivia and the obstacles they had to overcome to conquer Chile and found the City of Santiago. The novel relates the main facts of the life of Inés, as written to be read by her adoptive daughter Isabel. In the
I got about halfway through this book before I decided Ines of My Soul was an assault against my spirit. The book is well written and, I would assume, well researched. My first source of disillusionment came when the reader (I listened to the audio book) Blair Brown for some reason decided to read the entire book in a faux Spanish accent, mutilating most of the pronunciations. Why?? Distracting and annoying to say the least.But that was a minor quibble compared to actual content. Written from
This is an astounding book about the establishment of the Spanish state of Chile. There were plenty of other people there, of course, referred to as Indians and consisting of various tribes. None of this mattered to most Spaniards, except for a workforce. Told from the point of view of Ines, a seamstress from a decent but plain family, who was bored in Spain and followed her conquistador husband to Peru, only to discover that he had been killed, and then made herself useful to the man who was
the line between fiction and non-fiction is too blurred on this one. it kind reads like a historical book told in the first person, which left me a bit disappointed. expected a bit more about Inés life and struggles, and a little less about the taking of other people's rightful land. but I'm not going to rant about colonialism here. anyway, Inés was an absolute icon, so ahead of her time. she's the most interesting thing about this book, in all honesty.not that impressed with my first Allende
Inés del alma mía = Ines of my soul, Isabel AllendeInés of My Soul (Spanish: Inés del alma mía, 2006) is a historical novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. The novel consists of an elderly Inés Suárez writing a memoir of her life. She narrates about her relationship with Pedro de Valdivia and the obstacles they had to overcome to conquer Chile and found the City of Santiago. The novel relates the main facts of the life of Inés, as written to be read by her adoptive daughter Isabel. In the
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