Allende Isabel has been writing since 1982 and up till now have
             produced 12 books." My invented country", her latest novel is basically a
             collection of historic/ past events, both on personal and national level
             and how all of them are interrelated and affects each other. Because the
             events have been merely derived from the memory of the author, neither the
             effects are in much chronological manner nor very authentic as the author
             herself admits that the when the line between imagination and reality is
             Thus the book cannot be considered a good guide to her native country,
             Chile. Infact, the plot is quiet hazy and elusive probably because Isabel
             didn't think long over the plot rather only wanted to provide her readers
             with another book within the time period of two years as she has always
             The book may be seem interesting time pass however, if critically
             analyzed there are too many flaws in it to be considered a good book. The
             author seems to totally outdate with the present or exceptional cases and
             thus the book is full of clichés and stereotypes. Like all British are mean
             and reserved and Irish are very religious people.
             She makes several attempt to bemuse her readers, nowhere she fails at that
             because the mode used is also too clichéd.
             Firstly she tries to gather people's sympathy by projecting her family
             as bunch of lunatics e.g. her grandparents' "house of eccentric people,
             half-wild pets and my grandmother's ghostly friends", where children like
             cats were treated as nuisance and therefore found her respite in books and
             by writing in dairy gifted to her by her mother. The American people can
             well relate to the children born in physiologically disturbed families or
             She has also used another way of collecting people 's sympathy
             especially that of American public, by touching a subject still to
             sensitive and fresh in their minds. That event is...