My country the inventor

The events of September 11 occurred and captured the world's attention, baffling everyone, and the American media was able to deceive the world with a lie that American politics wanted. They were heinous events, whoever carried them out, because they killed innocents and unleashed the beast on everyone. What happened had an impact on Isabel Allende, making her think about the world she lives in and her homeland. She sees California, which she loves, as her real country, or Chile, "her motherland," from which she left under the pressure of the horrific military dictatorship. That is why she says: "Coincidentally, which sends shivers down the spine — karmic history — the hijacked planes crashed into their targets on Monday, September 11, exactly in the same week and month — and almost at the same time of day — as the Chilean military coup in 1973. That coup was a terrorist act planned by the American Central Intelligence Agency against democracy. The image of buildings burning, smoke, flames, and panic are similar in both scenes. On that distant Tuesday of 1973, my life shattered; nothing returned to what it was before. I lost a country. The ominous Tuesday of 2001 was also a decisive moment; nothing will be as it was, and I gained a country." After the fall of the military dictatorship, she could return to her motherland, but she does not. She only visits briefly, visits to a country she invented, which we see throughout the pages of this book that goes beyond being memoirs to become a kind of reflection on geography and people, on human behavior, and a journey through memory and family history driven by longing.