ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA
"Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers."-Los Angeles Times
The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman-a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny-in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the ninteenth century.
The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité-known as Tété-was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo.
Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father's plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.
ISABEL ALLENDE
Isabel Allende is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than seventy-seven million books. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then, she has authored more than twenty-six bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea, Paula, and The Wind Knows My Name.
In 1996, following the death of her daughter, Paula, Allende established a charitable foundation in her honor. The foundation has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide, delivering life-changing care to hundreds of thousands of women and girls.
In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Allende lives in California.
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ALLENDE ISABEL
Novelista, feminista y filántropa, es una de las autoras más leídas del mundo y ha vendido más de 77 millones de copias de sus veintiséis libros en cuarenta y dos idiomas. Además de su labor como escritora, Isabel dedica gran parte de su tiempo a causas de derechos humanos. Ha recibido quince doctorados honoris causa, fue incluida en el Salón de la Fama de California y recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, el PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award y el Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. En 2014, el presidente Barack Obama le otorgó la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, el honor civil más alto del país, y en 2018 recibió la Medalla por la Contribución Distinguida a las Letras Estadounidenses de la Fundación Nacional del Libro. Vive en California con su esposo y sus perros, uno de los cuales se llama Perla.