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Island Beneath the Sea

English · Paperback

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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue - now known as Haiti -Tete is the product of violent union between an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it''s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father''s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tete and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When bloody revolution arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, Tete finally forges a new life - but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed. Spanning four decades, ''Island Beneath the Sea'' is the moving story of one woman''s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.

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Authors Isabel Allende
Assisted by Margaret Sayers Peden (Translation)
Publisher Fourth Estate
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 09.06.2011
 
EAN 9780007423330
ISBN 978-0-00-742333-0
Dimensions 110 mm x 180 mm x 36 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Chilenische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)

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