Island Beneath the Sea
Twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain comes to Saint-Dominigue in 1770. It's as if he's a contemporary financier who is coming to Manhattan to become a billionaire. With a bevy of powdered wigs in his baggage, he comes to run his father's plantation, Saint Lazare. The work is hard, more difficult than he could have been prepared to expect. For eight years, he works his tail off, also trying to find the perfect mate for the perfect marriage, which proves much harder than he could have imagined. Of course, there are complications where Tété is involved -- his dependence on her frightens him and makes some of his choices harrowing. Tété is also determined to find her own true love, and so ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA ponders their futures over four very different decades.
And so ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA is a tale of poetics and cruelty. and how the two together can often coalesce into something like a diamond --- sharp but shining, an example of the hard fight won. Allende just keeps getting better, and this epic will surely find its way into many a summer tote bag.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a writer, feminist and philanthropist. She is one of the world's most widely read authors, with over 80 million copies of her books sold and translated into 42 languages. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed bestsellers, including The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna and Paula. She devotes much of her time to human rights causes. She has 15 honorary doctorates, has been inducted into the California Writers Hall of Fame, and is the recipient of the PEN Club of America Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolfe Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, she was named a Fellow of the National Book Awards. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, and in 2018 she received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Letters.
Isabel Allende lives in California with her husband and their dogs.
Official website of the writer: IsabelAllende.com
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