Island Beneath the Sea
Island Beneath the Sea
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Island Beneath the Sea

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“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.” – Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul, The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia) tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny.Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité–known as Tété–is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Tété surivves a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Marriage also proves problematic when, eight years later, he brings home a bride. But it is his teenaged slave Tété who becomes Valmorain’s most inportant confindant. A heartwrenching and powerful story story of an extraordinary woman who forges her identity and finds love and freedom under the cruelest of circumstances. Isabelle Allende has done it again.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780061988240
    Publication Date
    April 27, 2010
    Original Publication Date
    August 25, 2009
    Page Count
    457
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2009046251

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