by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9780307476043
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«La isla bajo el mar» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published in 2009 by Plaza & Janés in hardback (512 pages, in Spanish).
In late 18th-century Saint-Domingue, Zarité, domestic slave of Toulouse Valmorain, shares secrets and spirituality with her people while revolution threatens the colony. After being taken to New Orleans, her story becomes a struggle for freedom and to rebuild her life.
For readers of historical fiction and of Isabel Allende's narrative, with a female protagonist and Caribbean setting.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
