My Invented Country
eBook - ePub

My Invented Country

A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

My Invented Country

A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

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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Information

Publisher
HarperVia
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780063021723
eBook ISBN
9780063049680

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Map
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Country of Longitudinal Essences
  7. Dulce De Leche, Organ Grinders, and Gypsies
  8. An Old Enchanted House
  9. A Millefeuille Pastry
  10. Sirens Scanning the Sea
  11. Praying to God
  12. The Landscape of Childhood
  13. A Sober and Serious People
  14. Of Vices and Virtues
  15. The Roots of Nostalgia
  16. Confused Years of Youth
  17. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  18. A Breath of History
  19. Gunpowder and Blood
  20. Chile in My Heart
  21. This Country Inside My Head
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Praise
  24. Also by Isabel Allende
  25. Copyright
  26. About the Publisher