| ISBN |
9781526648341 (hardback) |
| Name |
Allende, Isabel author. |
| Title |
Violeta / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle. |
| Published |
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
320 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story." -- Cover. |
| Summary |
This novel tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling... She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Subjects |
Women -- South America -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Women's rights -- Fiction |
| Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction |
| Families -- South America -- Fiction |
| COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Fiction |
| Centenarians -- Fiction |
| Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction |
| Epidemics -- Fiction |
| Families -- Fiction |
| South America -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Latin America -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction |
| Historical fiction |
| Other Names |
Riddle, Frances translator. |
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