Portrait in sepia : a novel

Allende, Isabel (1942-)

Portrait in sepia : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden - 1st Harper large print ed. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , c2001. - 434 p. ; 24 cm. - Large print books .

Isabel Allende's sensuous novel about the mystery of memory In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment, but is 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 explores the mystery of her past.

9780066214016

00054127


Amnesia----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction


Historical fiction

PQ8098.1.L54 / R4813 2001

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