欧宝娱乐

While this did not live up to some of Isabel Allende's other work in terms of either writing style or character development, the history was fascinating. It is a fictionalized account of the founding of Chile, told through the eyes of the "mother of the country," the leading conquistador's mistress. The book is written to be her memoirs, so there are rather annoying interludes in which the narrator is in her "present day," talking about how she must finish the story before she dies, blah blah blah, and her comments about the other characters' personalities are also rather banal. However, the story is fascinating, and Allende did a great deal of background research that makes the setting realistic, even if she does not go into the moral complexities of the conquests themselves. In this way, she stays true to her narrator's voice, even if that is somewhat simplistic for modern readers who may not see the conquest and butchering of native peoples as a god-given right of the Spaniards.