Author: Isabel Allende
Length: 457 pages
Type: Fiction
Genre: Historical
“Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage, the main character of Island Beneath the Sea survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father’s plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. Marriage also proves problematic when, eight years later, he brings home a bride. But, it is his teen-aged slave upon whom Valmorain becomes most dependent, as their lives intertwine across four tumultuous decades.
In Island Beneath the Sea, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende spins the unforgettable saga of an extraordinary woman determined to find love amid loss and forge her own identity under the cruelest of circumstances.”
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