Island beneath the sea

R$ 223,90

Sinopse

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.

Participantes

Autor: Isabel Allende

Tradutor: Margaret Sayers Peden

Autor

ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende nasceu em 1942, no Peru, onde seu pai era diplomata. Viveu no Chile entre 1945 e 1975, com longos períodos de residência em outros lugares, na Venezuela até 1988 e, a partir de então, na Califórnia. Começou a carreira literária como jornalista no Chile e na Venezuela. Em 1982, seu primeiro romance, A casa dos espíritos, tornou-se um dos títulos míticos da literatura latino-americana. A ele se seguiram muitos outros, todos com grande sucesso internacional. Seus livros já foram traduzidos para 35 idiomas. Recebeu o Prêmio Nacional de Literatura 2010, no Chile, e o Prêmio Hans Christian Andersen, em 2012, este último pela série As Aventuras da Águia e do Jaguar.