The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don't feel I belong anywhere. I'm an immigrant. (Isabel Allende)

The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don't feel I belong anywhere. I'm an immigrant.

Isabel Allende

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