by Isabel Allende · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467454635
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«El Zorro: Comienza la leyenda» is Isabel Allende's adventure novel, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardcover (381 pages, in Spanish).
A novel that reconstructs the origins of the masked hero: Diego de la Vega, son of a Spanish hidalgo and an indigenous warrior woman, grows up between two worlds in colonial California. Diego's father sends him to Barcelona at the end of the 18th century, where the young man is educated in the humanities and fencing, discovers love and social injustice, and ends up forging the identity of the legendary defender of the weak.
This 2008 edition belongs to the Biblioteca Isabel Allende collection; the novel was originally published in 2005.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction and for fans of Isabel Allende who wish to discover her take on the origins of Zorro.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
