My Life with Pablo Neruda

"Urrutia draws strength from her husband's writings after his death as she faces her fears of remaining silent in the face of injustice. Her graceful prose offers not only a glimpse of her life with the great poet but also a portrait of the nobility of suffering under an unjust political regime." --Publishers Weekly
"In the category of personal accounts, Matilde Urrutia's autobiography is particularly important. She was not only the raison d'etre of One Hundred Love Sonnets but also the source of peace and domesticity in Neruda's mature life, and the keeper of the flame after his death." --Ilan Stavans, editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda and Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College