by Isabel Allende · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466362887
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«Violeta» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Debolsillo in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Violeta is born in 1920, in the midst of the Spanish flu, and her life extends to the 2020 pandemic. In a letter to the person she loves most, she recalls the loss of the family fortune during the Great Depression, her youth in a remote region, loves and disappointments, the fight for women's rights, and the rise and fall of tyrants.
«Violeta» is part of Debolsillo's Best Seller collection, and the edition was published on 2 February 2023.
For readers of historical and contemporary fiction, with a female protagonist; also suitable for reading groups.
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.
