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My Invented Country Audio Book
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My Invented Country:
A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Author:
Isabel Allende
Reader: Blair Brown
The eloquent author of Daughter of Fortune shares this highly personal memoir of exile and homeland that evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming idiosyncratic Chilean people, and its politics, religion, myth, andmagic. Audie Award finalist. "The extraordinary talent of Blair Brown enhances Allende's gifts as a storyteller... Her self-assured, dignified performance frees the memoir to make its own revelations, unsentimentally."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 05/08/2003
ISBN: 9780060559274
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Synopsis:
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Although she claims to have been an outsider in her native land -- "I never fit in anywhere, not into my family, my social class, or the religion fate bestowed on me" -- Isabel Allende carries with her even today the mark of the politics, myth, and magic of her homeland, Chile. In My Invented Country she explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 on her newly adopted homeland, the U.S., brought fourth from Allende an overdue acknowledgment that she had indeed left home. My Invented Country speaks compellingly to all of us who try to retain a coherent inner life and a sense of humor in a world full of contradictions.
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Book Reviews:
| "MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY is full of holes that can be filled only by consulting the pertinent passages from Allende's earlier novels and memoirs. This can make frustrating reading for those who don't have her entire oeuvre in their heads or at their fingertips....The book's random nature is reinforced by her casual, chatty tone, which is always charming and entertaining....Her observations about how her initial estrangement and later exile from Chile have come to form her and influence her writing are interesting and sensitively expressed....[A]n enticing yet frustrating book that will send many readers back to the source (or the sources)--her novels." |
| New York Times Book Review - Peter Cameron (06/08/2003) |
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Author Bio:
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Chilean writer Isabel Allende was actually born in Peru, but raised in Chile. She is the niece of Salvador Allende, the president of Chile who was deposed by a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother became involved in a scandalous affair with a Chilean diplomat, whom she later married. Allende was a journalist before she began writing fiction in 1981. Married twice herself, she is the mother of a son and a daughter, and has spent much of her adult life in California.
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