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Portrait in sepia : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

By:

Allende, Isabel, (1942-)

Contributor(s):

Peden, Margaret Sayers

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Large print booksPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers , c2001.Edition: 1st Harper large print edDescription: 434 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780066214016

Uniform titles:

Retrato en sepia . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

LARP FIC ALL

LOC classification:

PQ8098.1.L54 R4813 2001

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Large print book	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LARP FIC ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		056192

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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.

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