Ines of My Soul

<p><strong>Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World.-- <em>Newsweek</em></strong></p><p><strong>A passionate epic of love freedom and conquest based on historical events from the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The House of the Spirits</em> and <em>A Long Petal of the Sea.</em></strong></p><p>Though she was born into poverty Inés Suárez a seamstress in sixteenth-century Spain embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nation's conquest of the Americas.<br/></p><p>Learning that her shiftless husband has vanished Inés uses his disappearance to embark on her own adventure. It is a journey will lead her to Pedro de Valdivia--a conquistador who becomes the first royal governor of Chile--and to a love that not only changes her life but the course of history. </p>