At this Dominican University of California event, Isabel Allende introduces her latest novel, My Name Is Emilia del Valle (Ballantine Books, 2025), and discusses the class structure of Chile which informed her writing and the importance of women characters who don’t compromise in a conversation with Matthew Félix.
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