A Brief Introduction to The Portrait of Brown

Brown Portriat is one of my favorite trilogy of family novels by Isabella Allende, a Chilean woman writer. The original text is Spanish, but I don't know Spanish, so I translated it according to the English version. This novel can be regarded as a series with her previous works "House of the Soul" and "The eldest daughter of wealth". With her unique calm and delicate brushwork, Isabella tells us about the changes that several Chilean families experienced from19th century to 20th century, highlighting the unique female images in several different times in the family. For example, Ross, an old lady who secretly wrote a wonderful erotic novel, Paulina, who can't read a few fingers but is very business-minded and adventurous, Irina Kaptelova, who has extraordinary memory and cooking skills and is determined to remain unknown forever, Nivea, who has given birth to 17 children and joined the women's liberation movement, Aurora, who loves to think with pictures in photography, Clara with psychic ability and her rebellious daughter Blanca ... After reading it, I feel that the long years are just fleeting. Life is nothing important, much ado about nothing. No wonder some people compare this group of novels with One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Note: The House of the Soul has a simplified Chinese translation by Zhu, Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, 199 1).