Violeta : A novel / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle.
By: Allende, Isabel
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Contributor(s): Riddle, Frances [Translator.].
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Ballantine BooksDate of publication: 2022Description: 319 pages: 24 cm.ISBN: 9780593499078.Subject(s): Epidemics -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Latin America -- FictionDDC classification: F Al547 2022 VIO Summary: 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 is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
Because of 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 she has known. Her family loses everything 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 times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is 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.
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| F Al149 2019 NEX The next person you meet in heaven / | F Al149 2021 STR The stranger in the lifeboat : | F Al547 2020 ALO A long petal of the sea: | F Al547 2022 VIO Violeta : | F Ar699 2025 PAS The passengers on the Hankyu Line / | F C6506 2020 ARC The archer / | F D338 1958 NOL No longer human / |
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 is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
Because of 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 she has known. Her family loses everything 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 times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is 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.
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