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by: Isabel Allende Average Rating: 3.50 out of 5 stars

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Isabel Allende has established herself as one of the most consummate of all modern storytellers, a reputation that is confirmed in her novel
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- Like a Sepia Photograph- Drab, Colourless and Old-Fashioned
"Portrait in Sepia" is a continuation of the family saga begun in "Daughter of Fortune". The main characters in that book were Eliza Sommers, the Chilean girl who runs away to the San Francisco of the Gold Rush era, and her husband, the Chinese doctor Tao Chien. "Portrait in Sepia" is set at a later period and covers the last few decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The main character is their granddaughter, Aurora, who after her mother dies in childbirth is brought ... Read More

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- Sequels are never as good as the original
Portrait in Sepia is a sequel to Daughter in Fortune. The first book had wonderful characters and a good variety of characters. This book has mainly two characters, one of them from the first book. I found this book almost boring and depressing. It wasn't nearly as rich and colorful as the first. Nothing happy really happens. Isabel Allende is a good writer and I will read other book by her but I was disappointed in this one.

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- Black & White, Color or Sepia?
Family ties are the most important things, and Isabel Allende is masterfully adept at portraying young women in search of their roots. I no longer want to know mine. She examines the human psyche and character to explain why the character acts the way she does.
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