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My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende is another historical fiction book starring a young woman with Chilean origins. Ms. Allende is a prolific award-winning American-Chilean author.
- 304 pages
- Publisher :Ballantine Books
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 059397509X
My rating for My Name Is Emilia del Valle —5
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Thoughts:
This book is written in the first person, a historical biography of Emilia herself. Even though she’s only in her mid-twenties, Emilia has already lived a full, exciting, and dangerous life.
As with many of the books I read by Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle, is well written, and the characters jump off the page. Much credit to translator Frances Riddle, who managed to beautifully retell the story in English, keeping the Latin spirit of it.
I found it fascinating to view, once again, Chile’s history through the eyes of a young woman. Emilia is brave, but the horrors of the battlefield and the inhumanity of humans to one another show her another aspect that she wasn’t exposed to in her intellectual upbringing.
The book does have a slow part somewhere in the middle, but most of it is a page-turner. We leave Emilia still a young woman, and I hope Ms. Allende has a plan to tell us more, since I’m sure she’s destined to do great things in Chile or San Francisco.
Synopsis:
Emilia Del Valle is the daughter of Molly Walsh, an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat who left her mother destitute. Her mother moved to San Francisco, where she met a man who fell in love with her and raised Emilia as if she were his own child.
A restless, passionate, and independent thinker, Emilia started publishing works under the assumed name of a man. Soon she got a job at a newspaper and an assignment covering the Chilean civil war.
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