Matilde Urritia deserves all of our admiration for her love and dedication to Pablo Neruda, a poet of the world. Her writing style [she is not a writer] leaves a lot to be desired, but details of her relationship and the love affair that launched so many beautiful poems that thrill and inspire us today are wonderful.
I got this book and have fallen in love instantly, within the first few chapters I had tears in my eyes. how wonderful to hear her side to this great love story.
Several years ago a friend brought me back Matilde's book from Chile, her original version in Spanish. I was eager to read it, as Matilde and Pablo were one of literature's greatest couples, and I had only, and the only biography I had read of Neruda at that time were his own Memoirs.
This translation of Matilde Urruita's memoir adds so much to the the canon of English language material about Pablo Neruda. Opening with the assassination of President Allende and Neruda's death, Urrutia in a series of flashbacks reveals her life with Neruda and his poetry.
