She wrote about a man called "The Collector" attempting to retrieve the title statue in one work, while in another work by this author, Kosongo usurps command of Ngoubé from Nana-Asanta and employs Sombe and Maurice Mbembelé.  
She wrote about a man called "The Collector" attempting to retrieve the title statue in one work, while in another work by this author, Kosongo usurps command of Ngoubé from Nana-Asanta and employs Sombe and Maurice Mbembelé.  Those works, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies, form a trilogy with another novel by this author about International Geographic reporter Kate Cold and her grandson Alexander, who are guided by Cesar Santos in a trip along the Amazon.  This author of City of the Beasts wrote a work in which Riad Halabi adopts the title character before his wife Zulema has an affair with his cousin Kamal, and one in which Aurora del Valle is the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers.  For 10 points—name this author of Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, and Eva Luna, who wrote about the Trueba family in her novel The House of the Spirits.
She wrote about a man called "The Collector" attempting to retrieve the title statue in one work, while in another work by this author, Kosongo usurps command of Ngoubé from Nana-Asanta and employs Sombe and Maurice Mbembelé.  
Isabel {Allende}