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Isabel Allende',s new novel, InĂŠs of My Soul, the 15th book she has published in just over two decades, is in many ways her most ambitious. It is historical fiction, set in Spain, Peru (where she was born) and Chile (where she grew up) in the 16th century, the time of the Spanish conquest of Central and South America, one of the bloodiest periods in human history. Its central character is an actual historical figure, InĂŠs SuĂĄrez, ",widow of the Most Excellent Gobernador don Rodrigo de Quiroga, conquistador and founder of the kingdom of Chile.", She is living in Santiago and is more or less 70 years old -- she doesn',t know the exact date of her birth, probably in 1507, in Spain, ",in Plasencia, in the north of Extremadura, a border city steeped in war and religion", -- and she is looking back on her life in the certain knowledge that her death cannot be far away.
ISBN: 7241178

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