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Author Allende, Isabel.

Title Portrait in sepia : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Edition First edition
Published New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2001]
©2001

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 MELB  860.64 A4327 A6/R3P  AVAILABLE
Description 304 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past."--BOOK JACKET
Subject Families -- Chile -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Chile -- History -- 1824-1920 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023885 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Author Peden, Margaret Sayers.
LC no. 00054127
ISBN 0066211611
Other Titles Retrato en sepia. English