02161cam a2200361 i 4500 2233362431 TxAuBib 20250514120000.0 250514s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593975091 30.00 059397509X 30.00 TxAuBib rda Allende, Isabel. My name is Emilia del Valle [Book] : a novel. New York : Ballantine Books, 2025. 287 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man's pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny. 20250514. Translated from the Spanish. Women authors Fiction. Authors Fiction. Journalists Fiction. Civil war Chile Fiction. Civil war Fiction. Estranged families Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Riddle, Frances, translator.