From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm Gilbert Cruz.

I'm guest hosting this week, filling in for Lulu.

If you don't know me, I'm the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the host of the book review.

And I'm very happy to be getting the chance to talk

with author Isabel Iyende. At 82, Iynde is one of the world's most beloved and best-selling

Spanish language authors. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages and 80 million

copies of her books have been sold

around the world. Iande's newest book is called My Name is Emilia del Valle, and it's about a

dark period in Chilean history, the 1891 Chilean Civil War. Like so much of Iyende's work,

it's a story about women in tough spots who figure out a way through.

It's not that far off from Ayande's own story.

She was raised in Chile, but in 1973, when she was 31 and working as a journalist with two small children, her life was upended forever.

It was then that a military coup pushed out the democratically elected president, Salvador

Aende, who was her cousin.

She fled to Venezuela, where she wrote her first book, The House of the Spirits,

which evolved from a letter she had started to her dying grandfather.

That book became a runaway bestseller, and it remains one of her best

known works. She moved to the U.S. in the late 1980s, where she has been writing steadily

ever since. Here is my conversation with Isabel Iyende.

Hello, Hilberto, howls you know, Ableu'u'u'u'n'

A little.

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