Author: Isabel Allende
- Fiction
- Plaza & Janés
- ISBN: 9780593975091
- Release Date: 11-16-2024
-Reviewed by: Lecturalia

An unforgettable story of love and war starring a woman who, faced with the greatest challenges, survives and reinvents herself.

San Francisco, 1866: an Irish nun, pregnant and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat after a passionate relationship, gives birth to a girl she names Emilia del Valle. Raised by her loving stepfather, Emilia will become a brilliant young woman of great personality, determined and independent, who will defy the social norms of her time to profess her true passion and vocation: writing.

At the age of seventeen, she will publish adventure novels under a male pseudonym. But soon, this fictional world will be too small for her, and she will decide to opt for the position of journalist offered to her by the local newspaper where she will experience reality up close.

Sometime later, she is given the opportunity to travel as a correspondent to the fervent civil war in Chile and does not hesitate to take it. Together with seasoned journalist Eric Whelan, Emilia will find a nation in bankruptcy, on the brink of the abyss. While covering the war between President Balmaceda and the rebel congress, she will take advantage of her stay in the country to explore her ties with the Del Valle family and finally meet her father.