![]() ![]() “In a way, I feel that I am working for my country, even if I don’t live there.” Now, living in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, she perseveres in her disbelief from a distance. ![]() ![]() It was as a letter to her Chilean grandfather, “hateful and much loved,” that Isabel Allende’s first novel, “The House of the Spirits,” began: “He was very machista, but he thought I was a genius, the most beautiful woman alive.”Ī niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende Gossens, the Chilean president who was killed in a coup in 1973, she became a journalist at 17, went on to write four “awful” plays and resisted leaving Chile after the coup because she did not believe a dictatorship could take hold in her country. ![]()
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