PORTRAIT IN SEPIA
Isabel Allende, , trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden. . HarperCollins, $26 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-06-621161-9
In this third work concerning the various and intertwining lives of members of a Chilean family, Allende uses the metaphor of photography as memory. "Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story; I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses that luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone for telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia," declares Aurora del Valle, protagonist of the tale. Here, Allende picks up where 1999's
Reviewed on: 07/16/2001
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