The Trueba family embodies strong feelings. This family saga starts at the beginning of the 20th century and continues through the assassination of Allende in 1973.

When her lover asks her to tell him a story, Eva Luna complies with this collection of tales.

"During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.

A compilation of the works of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future. "From the Paperback edition.

This book examines a largely neglected phenomenon in the field of international relations--the concept of the isolated state.

An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.

"Two life-altering events inflect the peripatetic narration of this book: The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer.

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

Julie D. Shayne is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Emory University.