{"id":76135,"date":"2025-05-05T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76135\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:43:09","slug":"book-marks-reviews-of-my-name-is-emilia-del-valle-by-isabel-allende-trans-by-frances-riddle-book-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76135\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Marks reviews of My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende trans. by Frances Riddle Book Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emilia&#8217;s story is exciting, empowering, and inherently feminist &#8230; As she has in previous acclaimed novels, Allende (The House of the Spirits; A Long Petal of the Sea; The Japanese Lover) applies riveting storytelling to an exploration of history through the lens of a fictional heroine. Allende&#8217;s language, and Frances Riddle&#8217;s translation, is evocative in its descriptions of Chile&#8217;s lovely landscapes, a young woman&#8217;s complicated love for her family, and the horrors of the battlefield &#8230; This enthralling novel leaves Emilia, still young, in a position of some uncertainty: readers may hope for more from this plucky protagonist in a possible sequel.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=4944#m67101\" class=\"see_more_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Review &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emilia&#8217;s story is exciting, empowering, and inherently feminist &#8230; As she has in previous acclaimed novels, Allende (The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,4072,65,37567,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-76135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fiction","11":"tag-historical","12":"tag-isabel-allende-trans-by-frances-riddle","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454580899582693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}