PORTRAIT IN SEPIA. By Isabel Allende. HarperCollins, $26. ISABEL Allende's new novel, Portrait in Sepia, is a study in nostalgia: nostalgia for lost love, lost culture and lost family.

PORTRAIT IN SEPIA By Isabel Allende Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden HarperCollins: 300 pp., $26 "Portrait in Sepia" is the story of Aurora del Valle, a bit of a bodice-ripping ...

This is one of those books that feels like an eternity has passed once you finished reading them. It has nothing to do with the length (the book hovers just around 300 pages), but it has more to ...

Gawron, 61, had been an artist for 40 years, specializing in portraits about half that time. Then came the terrorist strikes that killed 37 residents of Middletown, a greater loss than any other town.

Portrait in Sepia takes up the story of the granddaughter of this unique couple, Aurora Del Valle. After a tragic childhood in San Francisco's Chinatown, Aurora finds herself the ward of her ...

'Portrait In Sepia' is a densely plotted tale set amongst an extended family, peopled by unforgettable exiles and marginalized characters and written in Allende's typically rich and sensuous manner.

Hosted by Michael SilverblattJan. 10, 2002Books Listen Portrait in Sepia (Harper Collins) Isabel Allende on war, love, autobiography, patriarchy, feminism and sex, in a riotous interview taped live at ...