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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. This book is about the Spanish exploration and takeover of Chile in 16th century South America. Told from the point of view of Ines Suarez, wife/mistress of Pedro de Valdivia, the story is rich with history. It shows the strength and perserverence of the people who worked to establish a Spanish society in Peru and Chile, but also shows the bravery and strength of the Indian tribes who lived there first and fought relentlessly to try and save their land from the newcomers. Isabel Allende has done a great job of mixing historical information with characters that are personable and endearing. I look forward to reading more of her work. (  ) pbarber42 | Dec 9, 2009 |  Con la excelente forma de escribir de Isabel Allende nos adentramos en la cruenta historia de la conquista de Chile por los españoles. Una novela histórica, con una vida de alguien que fue tras la búsqueda de su marido e hizo historia por ella misma y todos los acontecimientos ocurridos a lo largo de su vida. (  ) fugaz_42 | Jun 19, 2009 | Allende writes enjoyable and entertainingly, but in Inés of my Soul she is nowhere near at her best. In a book about not just the conquistadors of Chile, but a conquistadora, it's unsurprising that plot and melodramas, politics and romance would take up a large chunk of this book—but sadly, that often comes at the expense of character development, and there were times when Inés of my Soul felt like a run-of-the-mill romance novel. Allende sets about to retrieve Inéz Suárez from the historical obscurity which her gender and the centuries have given her, but the portrait she paints is a rather ill-defined one. There were some passages of prose that were truly luminous, even in translation, but I never felt that I got to know Inéz terribly well—nor did I feel that Allende truly got to grips with the problems of writing a (largely sympathetic) novel from the point of view of a group responsible for untold levels of cultural genocide. (  ) siriaeve | Jun 12, 2009 | Allendella yksinkertaisesti on tarinankerronnan lahja. Vielä parempi, kun taustalla on tositarina. ( ) virpiloi | Mar 29, 2009 | The story is about a young Spanish woman who follows her husband when he goes off to the New World to make his fortune. The book seemed pretty interesting but there was one thing that turned me off and it happened so much that I just couldn't listen anymore. It's told from the point of view of a much older Ines telling about her younger self, which is fine. I've read lots of books that start in the future and then go back. However, she continually makes allusions to things that will happen later in the most annoying ways. "As you will see later," "As will be explained later," "Which would never come to pass," "If I had only known how it would turn out." These phrases are fairly irritating when used more than once. Yes, I believe you should only use this once in a book no matter how long that book is. It can make a certain impact when used correctly. If used too many times, it simply becomes irritating. If the book is 985 pages long, it should still only be used once. I listened to the audio book for an hour and she said it 10 times. I'm not sure how many chapters or pages that was but it wasn't very long of a time to have it said that many times! Just tell me the story as it happens. Quit telling me that something is going to happen or that I will see different results later. Just tell it and let it unfold naturally. So I wish I could tell you more about the book but I just got irritated and stopped listening. The book is already on it's way to it's new owner, care of Paperback Swap. I hope that person enjoys it more than me (  ) TonyaSB | Mar 18, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, 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, Inés 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, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans—the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.
Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.
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