![]() Certainly, it’s a component of her debut. She has described this experience as central to the process of becoming a writer. ![]() After he was overthrown in a U.S.-assisted coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, she went into exile, living in Venezuela for 13 years before eventually relocating to Marin County. ![]() Īllende was a cousin to Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973. This article appears in Issue 22 of Alta Journal. She was also in the right place at the right time. All the same, she was not a novice author she had worked as a journalist and written children’s books. In part, this is because Allende followed her instincts having not written long-form fiction previously helped her to steer clear of preconceptions, to let her imagination go wherever it might. Originally developed as a letter to her dying grandfather, it is a book that blurs all sorts of boundaries: between naturalism and magical realism, fiction and family history. ![]() T he House of the Spirits is Isabel Allende’s first novel, and what a way to begin. ![]()
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