Author(s): ALLENDE ISABEL

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life.

Flamingo, 2001. Reprint. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine, unclipped d/w. This copy is from the library of Sir William Heseltine, the former Principal Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth 11, and bears his bookplate.