Inés of my soul

a novel

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2006 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-116153-7
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OCLC Number:
65407565

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"Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, 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. Ines 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, …

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Subjects

  • Allende, Isabel - Prose & Criticism
  • Hispanic American Novel And Short Story
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Suâarez, Inâes,
  • General
  • Fiction / General
  • Historical - General
  • 1507 (ca.)-1580
  • Suâarez, Inâes,