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  “Spellbinding. . . . In flawlessly rich prose, [Allende] shares with us her most intimate feelings.”

  —Washington Post Book World

  MY INVENTED COUNTRY: A MEMOIR

  Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of a homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks against her adopted homeland the United States on September 11, 2001, brought forth an overdue acknowledgment that Allende had indeed left home. My Invented Country, mimicking the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance between past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants and to all of us who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions.

  “The book gets my undivided attention when it expounds on the relationship of the author to that country of hers, invented, imaginary, fictional, to the story of her family, which is itself invented memory, and to her vocation as a narrator.”

  —Los Angeles Times

  THE SUM OF OUR DAYS

  In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory—and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.

  “Terrific. . . . Funny, insightful, moving, and filled with Allende’s unique voice.”

  —USA Today

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  Also by Isabel Allende

  THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS

  OF LOVE AND SHADOWS

  EVA LUNA

  THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA

  PAULA

  APHRODITE: A MEMOIR OF THE SENSES

  DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE

  PORTRAIT IN SEPIA

  MY INVENTED COUNTRY

  ZORRO

  INÉS OF MY SOUL

  THE SUM OF OUR DAYS

  ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA

  FOR YOUNG ADULTS

  CITY OF THE BEASTS

  KINGDOM OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON

  FOREST OF THE PYGMIES

  Copyright

  Originally published in Spain as El Plan Infinito by Plazay Janés Editores, S.A., Barcelona.

  A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers.

  A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin Library.

  P.S.™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.

  THE INFINITE PLAN. Copyright © 1991 by Isabel Allende. English translation copyright © 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  First HarperPerennial edition published 1994. Reissued in Perennial 2002.

  First Harper Perennial edition published 2010.

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

  Allende, Isabel.

  [Plan infinito. English]

  The infinite plan : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-06-017016-6

  I. Title.

  PQ8098.I.L54P5713 1993

  863—dc20

  92-54741

  ISBN 978-0-06-197682-7 (P.S. edition)

  EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062254399

  13 14 RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

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