Isabel Allende
reads from “My Invented Country”
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Presentation · Luzia Braun
Speaker · Hannelore Hoger
In “My Invented Land” Allende gives a glimpse into her ambivalent relationship with Chile, the land of her longings, which she had to leave under Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Simultaneously she describes what it means, as a Latina, to find a new home and to invent a particular sphere of writing in the USA, which she considers her true home.
Isabel Allende, born in 1942, has been the most renowned female author of Latin America ever since her novel “The House of Spirits” became a best-seller. Her most recent work to appear in Germany is the autobiographical story “My Invented Country”.
Presentation · Luzia Braun
Speaker · Hannelore Hoger
In “My Invented Land” Allende gives a glimpse into her ambivalent relationship with Chile, the land of her longings, which she had to leave under Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Simultaneously she describes what it means, as a Latina, to find a new home and to invent a particular sphere of writing in the USA, which she considers her true home.
Isabel Allende, born in 1942, has been the most renowned female author of Latin America ever since her novel “The House of Spirits” became a best-seller. Her most recent work to appear in Germany is the autobiographical story “My Invented Country”.