Portrait in Sepia - P.S. Author:Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of... more » the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she explores the mystery of her past.« less