Island Beneath the Sea Hardcover - 2010
by Isabel Allende
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Allende's latest novel introduces yet another unforgettable woman--a slave and concubine determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.
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Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit�--known as T�t�--is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, T�t� finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Although Valmorain purchases young T�t� for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Against the merciless backdrop of sugarcane fields, the lives of T�t� and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the brutal conditions of the French colony, soon to become Haiti, for the raucous, free-wheeling enterprise of New Orleans. There T�t� finally forges a new life, but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not easily severed. With an impressive richness of detail, and a narrative wit and brio second to none, Allende crafts the riveting story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge a new identity in the cruelest of circumstances.
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- Title Island Beneath the Sea
- Author Isabel Allende
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harpervia, New York
- Date 2010-04
- ISBN 9780061988240 / 0061988243
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.45 x 1.43 in (23.42 x 16.38 x 3.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Caribbean Area, Women slaves
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009046251
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/2010, Page 5
- BookPage, 05/01/2010, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 05/07/2010, Page 77
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2010, Page 275
- Library Journal, 04/15/2010, Page 72
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/15/2010, Page 70
- New York Times Book Review, 05/02/2010, Page 26
- People Weekly, 06/21/2010, Page 63
- Publishers Weekly, 04/05/2010, Page 43
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