A passionate tale of love, freedom, and conquest from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende. Born into a poor family in Spain, Ins Surez, finds herself condemned to a lifeof poverty without opportunity as a lowly seamstress. But it’s the sixteenth century, the beginning ofthe Spanishconquest of the Americas. Struck by the samerestless hope and opportunism, Insuses her shiftless husband’s disappearance to Peru as an excuse to embark on her own adventure.After learning of her husband’s death in battle, she meets the fiery war hero, Pedro de Valdivia and begins a love that not only changes her life but the course of history. Based on the real historical events that founded Chile, Allende takes us on a whirlwind adventure of love and loss seen through the eyes of a daring, complicated womanwho fought for freedom.
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