Herinnering aan mijn Chili
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789028420106
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Wereldbibliotheek
Pages no: 191
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American
In "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey through Chile", Isabel Allende takes the reader to her native land Chile and treats said reader to a fascinating discussion on Chilean history, culture, her own life, and the various idiosyncrasies of her own family across the generations. Reading this bo...
This is Isabel Allende's funny and sorrowful tribute to her native country. She starts off with amusing stories: a cat-killing refrigerator; her grandfather's insistence that he saw the devil on a bus; her father who disguised himself as a Peruvian Indian woman with bright petticoats and a wig with ...