Isabel Allende: If You Touched My Heart
“If You Touched My Heart” (Si me tocaras el corazón) is a short story by Isabel Allende, published in 1989 in the book Cuentos de Eva Luna. Amadeo Peralta, raised in a family of violent and authoritarian men, learns from childhood that power is imposed with cunning and brutality. Forced by his father to improve the family reputation, he must marry a young woman with a respectable surname. During a trip to the provinces, amid the heat and tedium of a forgotten village, Amadeo discovers a teenager playing a psaltery, an encounter that will eventually mark a decisive turning point in his destiny.