num_pages: 519
description: Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune (a February 2000 Oprah Pick) and The House of the Spirits , Isabel Allende has written a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. In Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Sepia) Allende has written a richly imagined saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th century Chile.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Retrato en sepia
titlecomplete: Retrato en sepia
characters: Tao Chi'en, Nivea del Valle, Paulina del Valle, Eliza Sommers, Lynn Sommers, Aurora del Valle, Severo del Valle
genres: Spanish Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Romance, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 38266
places: Chile
series: Involuntary trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Valle-Inclán
category: Margaret Sayers Peden
publisher: Thorndike Press