WOMAN (Spain)

Portrait of Passion
By Myriam SerranoLEER (Spain)

Her life (Isabel Allende's) is a Technicolor epic movie, like those of her protagonists, those strong women of sweeping personality that have captivated a legion of faithful readers all over the world. Memory and family secrets are the main themes of her latest novel “Portrait in Sepia” (Plaza & Janés)

LEER (Spain)

Best seller “Portrait in Sepia”
In Aurora del Valle, Isabel Allende has created the figure of an intelligent and enterprising woman who, at the end of the XIX century, deciphers her family roots in search of her identity at a time when women scarcely had a protagonist role.

CORDOBA (Spain)
By Luis Alonso Girgado

“Portrait in Sepia” is a novel of lives, dreams and intertwined destinies, as well as farewells and encounters, dawn and sunset. A beautiful narrative and verbal tapestry that seduces us from beginning to end. Full of warmth and affection, this is a novel to enjoy reading.

EL CULTURAL (Spain)
by Joaquín Marco

Isabel Allende knows how to combine the complexity of the plot with her well defined characters; the details of everyday life with historical reality; sentiments with good style.

EXTREMADURA (Spain)
By Ramón Ventura

...And these great women, extraordinary and of sublime character, make this an epic novel of great sentiments: tragedy, hope, moral fable, sketch of a family and of a country. Definitely a great book.

INTERVIU (Spain)
By N. Marra

...A natural talent, a commitment to the best writing and the ability to gain the reader from the first to the last page. Not everything is intimate in this novel placed at the end of the XIX century. There is also political and social analysis, a search for the contradictions of the Chilean society in the turn of the century. The characters, impeccably drawn, demonstrate once more the strength of this writer.

LA TERCERA (Chile)
Claudia Aguilera

Considered as the most read author of Spanish language, the Chilean author living in the United States (Isabel Allende) talks about her novel “Portrait in Sepia”: women, history and “the marvelous adventure of writing”. she explains that here last book is part of a trilogy which includes “Daughter of Fortune” and “The House of the Spirits”. With her usual references to feminine power, magic realism and eroticism, and within the margins that have made her known in the world, the author presents Aurora del Valle, granddaughter of Eliza Sommers, the protagonist of her previous book “Daughter of Fortune”... And if the grandmother Eliza Sommers has already sold 400.000 in Spain alone, everything indicates that the granddaughter will continue the success that has marked the literary family of Isabel Allende.

LA VANGUARDIA (Argentina)
Lilian Neuman

The author dominates the narrative art and “Portrait in Sepia” will be an unstoppable best-seller.
It is not necessary to explain to Isabel Allende's readers her control of the narrative, more and more reliable, sprinkled with touches of humor. Allende does not use pamphlet or any obvious allegories. She is installed with greater assurance in her place in the world of literature.