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Portrait in Sepia audiobook
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrator: Isabel Allende
- Category: Fiction, Historical
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 19, 2020
- Language: English
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Portrait in Sepia Audiobook Summary
“Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.”
–Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete and inspiring as the real world it parallels … Allende’s enchanting historical universe keeps expanding and Portrait in Sepia is a new galactic jewel.”
—Chicago Tribune
A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.
Portrait in Sepia is an extraordinary achievement: richly detailed, epic in scope, intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.
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Portrait in Sepia Full Details
| Narrator | Isabel Allende |
| Length | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | May 19, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9780063000452 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Portrait in Sepia is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the Portrait in Sepia is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063000452.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Joseph
October 28, 2021
Isabel Allende's, "Portrait in Sepia," is an absolutely wonderful sequel to her, "Daughter of Fortune."Like its predecessor, it is over the top with fantastic characters, the writing is sublime, and I have learned more about the history of Chile and San Francisco than I ever imagined possible. Ms. Allende is a major talent.
Book Concierge
February 04, 2017
Audiobook narrated by Blair BrownThis is the third book Allende has written about the Del Valle family. Though it was the last published, in chronological order it falls between Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, but can easily be read as a standalone novel. The sweeping scope of this book takes us from mid 19th-century San Francisco to early 20th century Chile, and is narrated by Aurora Del Valle, a fiercely independent woman who followed her own destiny regardless of convention. I love Allende’s writing. There is a decidedly Latin beat to the flow of her sentences. And her descriptions are full of sensory highlights – the reader smells the sea air, feels the quality of fine fabrics, suffers in the tropical heat, hears the cacophony of a busy marketplace, and tastes the herbs and spices of Chinese or Chilean cuisine.The characters are larger than life and run the gamut from a wealthy Chilean grand dame to a Chinese herbalist to an English butler and a Serbian physician. I greatly appreciated the family tree printed in the text version, and wished that I also had a map handy to help with the geography.While she is known for magical realism, there is little of that in this book, aside from a reference to the ghost of Aurora’s grandfather being ever present. I think I need to go back to The House of the Spirits and read it again….Blair Brown does a fine job performing the audio version. She has good pacing and enough skill as a voice artist to clearly distinguish the many characters.
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