Nesmith Library

In?s of my soul, Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

eng

not applicable

not applicable

In?s of my soul

sound recording

Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Born into a poor family Spanish family, In?s, 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, In?s uses the opporunity 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