My name is Emilia del Valle —Isabel Allende

An unforgettable story of love and war starring a woman who, faced with the greatest challenges, survives and reinvents herself.

San Francisco, 1866. An Irish nun, pregnant and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat after a passionate relationship, gives birth to a girl she names Emilia del Valle. Raised by her loving stepfather, Emilia will become a brilliant young woman of great personality, autonomous and independent, who will challenge the social norms of her time to pursue her true passion and vocation: writing.

At just seventeen, she will publish adventure novels under a male pseudonym. But soon, her fictional world will become too small for her, and she will decide to apply for the position of journalist offered to her at the local newspaper to experience reality firsthand.

Some time later, she will have the opportunity to travel as a correspondent to the fervent civil war in Chile and will not hesitate to take it. Alongside the seasoned journalist Eric Whelan, Emilia will find a nation in ruins, on the brink of collapse. While covering the armed conflict between President Balmaceda and the rebel congress, she will take advantage of her stay in the country to explore her ties with the Del Valle family and finally meet her father.

Her reports will place her at the center of the war, enduring situations of terrible violence on the battlefield, in the field hospital, and in prison, where she will repeatedly face life and death. At the same time, she will experience—and suffer—love and will also discover, among forests, lakes, and volcanoes, a land untouched by the horror of war, where she might ultimately discover not only her destiny but her own identity.

ISBN: 9786073857284