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First published as Mi País Inventado in Spain in 2003 by Areté.

The first U.S. edition of this book was published in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers.

MY INVENTED COUNTRY. Copyright © 2014 by Isabel Allende. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Perennial edition published 2004.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows: Allende, Isabel.

[Mi país inventado. English]

My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile / by Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.—1st ed.

p.  cm.

ISBN 0-06-054564-X

1. Allende, Isabel. 2. Chile—History—Coup d’état, 1973. 3. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. 4. Authors, Chilean—20th century—Biography. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.

PQ8098.1.L54 Z467 2003

863'.64—dc21 2002191267

ISBN 0-06-054567-4 (pbk.)

EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062254443

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