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My name is Emilia del Valle : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle.

Allende, Isabel, (author.).

Summary:

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man's pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593975091
  • ISBN: 059397509X
  • Physical Description: 287 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Ballantine Books, [2025]
Subject: Women authors > Fiction.
Journalists > Fiction.
Estranged families > Fiction.
Birthfathers > Fiction.
Civil war > Chile > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Chile > History > Revolution, 1891 > Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 2 of 6 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Union County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Cook Memorial Library - La Grande .

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 6 total copies.
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Cook Memorial Library - La Grande F Allende, I (Text) 35178002081902 New Adult Fiction Available -

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