âPowerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World.ââ Newsweek
A passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea.
Though she was born into poverty, InĂ©s SuĂĄrez, a seamstress in sixteenth-century Spain, embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nationâs conquest of the Americas.
Learning that her shiftless husband has vanished, InĂ©s uses his disappearance to embark on her own adventure. It is a journey will lead her to Pedro de Valdiviaâa conquistador who becomes the first royal governor of Chileâand to a love that not only changes her life but the course of history.