Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with 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 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 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. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
Isabel Allende (Lima, Perú, 2 de agosto de 1942) es una escritora chilena con nacionalidad estadounidense, de ascendencia hispano-portuguesa y nacida en Perú. Desde 2004 es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de su país en 2010. Autora de superventas, la venta total de sus libros alcanza 73 millones de ejemplares y sus obras han sido traducidas a 42 idiomas. Es considerada como la escritora viva más leída del mundo de la lengua española. El humor forma parte integral de sus ...
Frances Riddle (Texas, Estados Unidos) traductora de literatura latinoamericana al inglés. Estudió en la Universidad de Buenos Aires Maestría en Traducción e Interpretación y en Louisiana State University Licenciatura en Literatura y Lengua Española. Ha traducido ficción y ensayo por autores como Isabel Allende, Claudia Piñeiro, Leila Guerriero, Sara Gallardo, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Carla Maliandi, Andrea Jeftanovic, María Fernanda Ampuero, Néstor Perlongher y Martín Felipe Castagnet. Su ...