My Imaginary Land
(Isabel Allende)
Her earliest memory of Chile is of a house that she has never seen ? the big house on the corner, in which her mother was born and her grandfather would tell her about to such an extent that it seemed to her as though she had lived there. This house plays the main role in her novel, ?The House of the Spirits?, and we meet it right at the beginning of this book of memories that takes us into the world of this great story-teller. Whoever shares a destiny similar to that of the author will recognise the feeling of homesickness that accompanies her story of her country that she loves and misses even though she never really feels like she belongs there - even before the military coup on 11th September 1973 that forced her into exile. Accompanied by a backdrop of magnificent landscapes at the end of the world, Allende writes about the pride, generosity and narrow-mindedness of her fellow countrymen, inflated machos and tireless women ? in short, what she loves and cannot bear about her native country, its violent history and how it is for a genuine Hispanic to find a new home in the USA. A home that is not marked on any map: I can live and write anywhere. Every book contributes a little bit towards this imaginary place in my head, as my grandchildren call it. During the slow process of writing I have wrestled with my demons and obsessions, explored the depths of memory, saved tales and figures that would otherwise have been forgotten and stolen the lives of others. From these raw materials I have constructed a place which I call my home. That is where I come from.Publisher: Suhrkamp Verlag. Hardback edition: 208 pages, EUR 17.30
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