My Name is Emilia del Valle (Isabel Allende)

San Francisco, 1866. Emilia del Valle is born to an Irish nun, and raised by a loving stepfather in place of the Chilean aristocrat father who abandoned them. She grows into self-sufficient young woman and independent thinker, who will do whatever it takes to pursue her passion for writing - even publishing pulp fiction under a man's name.
When fictional worlds can no longer contain her sense of adventure, she convinces an editor at the Daily Examiner to hire her as a journalist. Emilia is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan, and the two of them seize an opportunity to cover a brewing civil war in Chile.
But the journey offers Emilia more than just a chance to prove herself as a writer. As she delves deeper into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie, she's given the chance to discover what became of her estranged father - and soon finds herself caught between love, danger and destiny.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is a literary living legend and phenomenon. With 77 million books sold, she is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. A novelist, feminist and philanthropist, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

Buch (Paperback), Englisch, 304 Seiten