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Island Beneath the Sea

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Triumph of a slave woman's indomitable spirit.

If tales of resilience in the face of adversity captivate you, "Island Beneath the Sea" by Isabel Allende should be your next pick. Allende crafts a nuanced narrative that not only highlights the harrowing realities of slavery but also the extraordinary determination of one woman to forge her own path. This book's vivid portrayal of strength and survival could inspire you as it has many others.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Island Beneath the Sea

Regular price ₱490.05
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ISBN: 9780007348664
Authors: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Collins Omes
Date of Publication: 2010-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: World War II, War, Race, Feminism
Goodreads rating: 4.1
(rated by 43799 readers)

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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. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas 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 baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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Triumph of a slave woman's indomitable spirit.

If tales of resilience in the face of adversity captivate you, "Island Beneath the Sea" by Isabel Allende should be your next pick. Allende crafts a nuanced narrative that not only highlights the harrowing realities of slavery but also the extraordinary determination of one woman to forge her own path. This book's vivid portrayal of strength and survival could inspire you as it has many others.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.