MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE

All of Allende?s books, My Name Is Emilia del Valle included, have the epic feel of a major Hollywood film.??Associated Press. 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.