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| Original Title: | La isla bajo el mar |
| ISBN: | 0061988243 (ISBN13: 9780061988240) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jean Lafitte, Zarité Sedella, Toulouse Valmorain, Violette Boisier, Sancho García del Solar, Maurice Valmorain, Rosette Sedella, Tante Rose, Dr. Parmentier, Loula |
| Setting: | Saint-Domingue(Haiti) |
Isabel Allende
Hardcover | Pages: 457 pages Rating: 4.05 | 31684 Users | 3161 Reviews
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| Title | : | Island Beneath the Sea |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 457 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 2010 by Harper (first published August 25th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Magical Realism |
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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Ratings: 4.05 From 31684 Users | 3161 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Island Beneath the Sea
An ambitious saga of personal lives and aspirations amid the violent transition of Haiti from a French colony founded on slavery into an independent republic at the turn of the 18th century. We are immersed in the story of the slave Zarité on a sugar plantation and how she learns to survive under its young aristocratic master Valmorain, who rapes her at 13 and fathers children by her. She eventually gains his respect and some independent agency as a caretaker of his white son. When the time of.This book took me by surprise. It talked about slavery mainly in the 18th century, and how Haiti became the first independent republic for black people after the rebellion of slaves.What I liked most is Zeraté's voice. She makes you live the heartbreaking torture that the slaves endured and the unspeakable condition they were facing in Sugar cane plantation business in addition to her heart wrenching story and how she gained her freedom. . Overall, the book was really good and enjoyable The
The Real Code NoirMy only direct knowledge of Haiti comes from my marginal involvement in the attempted Haitian coup of 1970 against Papa Doc Duvalier. The failed survivors took to sea in several small ships, ran out of fuel, and asked for humanitarian assistance from the Coast Guard. My ship was diverted from training in Guantanamo Bay and ordered to tow the rebel vessels to Roosevelt Roads, a naval base on Puerto Rico. I, as an expendable junior officer, was assigned to take command of the
3.5 stars, rounded upIsland Beneath the Sea is an epic historical saga, following the lives of slave Tété and her master Valmorain. The story begins on the island of Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti) and follows the pair through a slave uprising and onwards to exile in New Orleans. Allendes storytelling is wonderful and she really transports the reader to the geographical and historical setting. I enjoyed the first part of the book, set in Haiti, more than the second part set in New Orleans,
I am absolutely in love with Isabel Allende's writing. When I read "The House of Spirits" I was captivated with how she is able to captivate her readers. She continues her magical writing with "Island Beneath The Sea". In Island Beneath The Sea we are taken to 1770 on the island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) where we meet Zarite, who is a slave on the island. We also meet French, Toulouse Valmorain who arrives on the island to run his father's plantation. Of course, Toulouse Valmorain, new to the
This is one of those books that make me wish for a "0" rating, so that I can count it on my list of books read, but tell ya how I really feel about it.My updates pretty much say it all-there are some things that are shockingly out of place here (did you know monkeys and wolves were indigenous to Haiti? I sure as hell didn't.), and what is (mostly) historically accurate is very obviously researched, cut and pasted practically. Know what? Daremblum says it so much more beautifully than I, so
Thursday evening, May 6th, I had the good fortune to attend a talk and reading by the most famous living Latin American author. Isabel Allende read from her new novel Island Beneath the Sea at the Atlanta History Center to an auditorium full of fans. She was a delight!!It had been years since someone had read to me and I had quite forgotten what a pleasure that can be. Author Allende reading her new book in her wonderful Latin American accent made for one of the most pleasurable evenings out I
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