![]() The great writers of Latin America were all male." "I was afraid to say that," Allende replied. She married and had two children, but always worked – as a TV personality, journalist, and school administrator.īraver asked, "Did you ever think, What I really want to do is be a writer?" "She had not been trained to work," Allende said, "because she belonged to a social class and a generation in which women didn't work. Her father abandoned the family when she was three, and her mother had to return to her parents' home in Santiago, Chile. "And when we had this horrible policy of separating the families at the border in 2018, I immediately thought of what those families had gone through then, and how history repeats itself."Īllende's own history is tumultuous. "The Jewish families had to make the horrible choice of sending their kids alone to save them from the Nazis, not knowing who would receive them on the other side," Allende said. ![]() Women and girls play key roles in "The Wind Knows My Name," Allende's latest novel, which draws parallels between Jewish children sent to safety by their families during World War II, and Latin American children separated from parents while trying to cross into the U.S. ![]() "Not ones I really like!" Author Isabel Allende's new novel is "The Wind Knows My Name." ![]()
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