by Isabel Allende · Suhrkamp Verlag KG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518458617
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«Zorro» is the historical adventure novel by Isabel Allende, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (443 pages, in German).
Diego de la Vega, son of a Spanish nobleman and an indigenous warrior woman, grows up in eighteenth-century California between fencing and the traditions of his people. Outraged by colonial oppression, he travels to Napoleonic Spain, where the masked hero Zorro and his fight for justice begin to take shape.
German translation by Svenja Becker; the original work, in Spanish, is titled «El Zorro: comienza la leyenda». This edition is volume 3861 of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction, especially those who want to learn about the origins of Zorro.
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.
