by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341939
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«La isla bajo el mar» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Zarité, a mulatto girl sold at age nine to a French landowner on the island of Santo Domingo. Raised as a domestic slave, her life becomes intertwined with masters and slaves on a sugar plantation, and her later move to New Orleans marks her path to freedom. The story spans four decades and portrays the harshness of slavery, resistance, love, and the spiritual strength of its protagonist.
Published in 2009, the work is part of the Éxitos collection and was originally written in Spanish.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction with a female protagonist.
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.
