![]() ![]() Everything is there, my mother’s whole life, and also my life. My son hired a company to digitise the letters, and they calculated that there are about 24,000. I used to write to my mum, and she would write to me, every single day for decades. Violeta is an epistolary novel, and your debut, The House of Spirits, sprang from a letter to your grandfather. I was very aware that it was not to my advantage to be born a female I’ve always said that there’s no feminism if you cannot support yourself and your children, because if you depend, then somebody else gives the orders. Violeta is someone who can make a living, and that makes such a huge difference. ![]() My mother was like her in the sense that she was beautiful, talented, visionary, but my mother was dependent. Violeta is born in my mother’s social class, in the same time, in a place that many readers will identify as Chile. Is its eponymous heroine based on your mother? ![]()
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