Daughter of Fortune From: The Washington Post | Date: May 18, 2003| Author: Reviewed by Joanne Omang | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

MY INVENTED COUNTRY

By Isabel Allende

HarperCollins. 224 pp. $23.95

(On sale at the end of May)

Isabel Allende's Chile is a whispery scrim that hangs and flutters in front of the hard, real place. Allende knows that the view she offers is hazy, but she wants it that way. Her aim in this nonfiction memoir of the spirits is not to clarify but to obscure, to emphasize and, as she says, to invent her native country so as to bemuse us. In this she succeeds, but the book ...

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