Violeta [English Edition]
A Novel
by Isabel Allende
Pub Date 25 Jan 2022 |
Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Ballantine Books
Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Multicultural Interest
I am reviewing a copy of Violeta through Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Netgalley:
Violeta was born on a stormy winters day in 1920, she was the first girl after five boisterous sons. From the beginning, her life was marked by extraordinary events! 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.
With her Fathers prescience there family will come through that crisis unscathed, but they will have to face a new one when 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.
Violeta tells her story 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.
I give Violeta five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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