Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune (a February 2000 Oprah Pick) and The House of the Spirits , Isabel Allende has written a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. In Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Sepia) Allende has written a richly imagined saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th century Chile.