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Inés of My Soul

Isabel Allende

Hardcover | Pages: 321 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 21281 Users | 1753 Reviews

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Title	:	Inés of My Soul
Author	:	Isabel Allende
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 321 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2006 by Harper (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.

Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans—the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.

Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.

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Original Title:	Inés del alma mía
ISBN:	0061161535 (ISBN13: 9780061161537)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Peru (Perú)(Peru) Chile

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This book did not captivate me the way Allende's other books did. Historically, very little is known about Inés Suarez, the lone woman who left Spain for Peru with the conquistadores in the 1500's, eventually becoming one of the conquerors of Chile and wife of the Royal Governor. Allende did a wonderful job of shaping Inés's voice; transforming her from the almost anonymous historical figure she is into a passionate, admirable woman whose words and actions matter in the grand scheme of things.

a rare 5 stars from this picky readerLush, richly detailed, immerses one quickly into the era and the characters. The accuracy of the historical events provides all the plot points one could desire. More would be hyperbole. No need for tacky ' plot points ' so beloved of commercialized authors these days. The history is sufficiently interesting --- if not, go watch tv! It seems that every 20th/21st century author of South American extraction must throw in politics and a bit of magical realism;

This is an epic historical novel about the founding of Chile in the Sixteenth Century. We follow events through the eyes of Ines who, in her old age, is writing a memoir for her daughter. Ines, based on the historical figure of Ines de Suarez, lived a full life into her seventies, surviving two husbands and a long-term lover. One husband and the lover were pioneers and governors of the struggling settlement of Santiago at the core of Chile, settled from Peru to the north. Ines suffered

Ines of My Soul is a fictionalized account of the courageous Spanish woman who helped found Chile and was the mistress of its founder, Pedro. Ines is a terrific protagonist - brave but compassionate, beautiful and sexy. She is telling the story as an old, dying woman, and the story goes back and forth with the present.The first half of the book is very well done, and tells the story of how Ines and Pedro came to Chile, their treacherous crossing of the Atacama Desert, and their early years in

Having read and loved The House of Spirits(possibly my favourite book of all time), I've come to expect only the best from Isabel Allende.She is, I believe, one of the few authors whose descriptive, multi-layered and hypnotic prose make the reader feel as if they were actually living and experiencing the heart and soul of her stories instead of just merely reading it.And with this book, it's no different.Inés of my soul chronicles the life of real life sixteenth-century heroine, Doña Inés

15/2 - I know almost nothing about South American history - I have heard of the Aztecs and the Incas and some of the myths surrounding them (mostly from movies), but I don't know any of the historical figures of any past era (or really even, the current era). I have wanted to read an Isabel Allende book for years and until I started reading this a few minutes ago I had no idea that it was about real people from the past. I am intrigued and excited to continue my first historical fiction from

3.5 StarsThis is my second book by Allende, and I can understand why people love her writing so much. She is a beautiful storyteller and her writing is so evocative and lovely and honest without being flowery or overdone. I love that quality in a writer - it's one of my favorite things about Colleen McCullough as well, especially in Tim. That book was my introduction to McCullough and it made a deep impression on me and instantly became one of my favorite books. Crap. Now I want to read it