by Isabel Allende · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490623701
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«La isla bajo el mar» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
In colonial Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century, the slave Zarité is sold at age nine to Toulouse Valmorain, a powerful landowner. Somewhat better treated than plantation slaves, her life unfolds between the spirituality of her people and the miseries of her masters, until a revolt changes everything and takes her to New Orleans, where she will fight to achieve freedom.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection from Debolsillo. The work was originally published in 2009.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the colonial Caribbean and stories of resilience.
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.
