
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Map
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Country of Longitudinal Essences
- Dulce De Leche, Organ Grinders, and Gypsies
- An Old Enchanted House
- A Millefeuille Pastry
- Sirens Scanning the Sea
- Praying to God
- The Landscape of Childhood
- A Sober and Serious People
- Of Vices and Virtues
- The Roots of Nostalgia
- Confused Years of Youth
- Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- A Breath of History
- Gunpowder and Blood
- Chile in My Heart
- This Country Inside My Head
- Acknowledgments
- Praise
- Also by Isabel Allende
- Copyright
- About the Publisher