17 Jun 2023

Isabel Allende on forced immigration and family separation

From Saturday Morning, 9:04 am on 17 June 2023
The Wind Knows My Name cover

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Best-selling Latin American author Isabel Allende’s new book The Wind Knows My Name reveals the brutal reality and lasting trauma caused by forced immigration and family separation.

It tells the tale of two child immigrants - a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938, and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019.

Isabel Allende is the author of many critically acclaimed works including Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and Paula. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-four million copies.

Isabel Allende

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