by Isabel Allende · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499087603
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«La isla bajo el mar» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Debolsillo in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the life of Zarité, a domestic slave sold at age nine to the landowner Toulouse Valmorain. In eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti), the young woman shares the spirituality and secrets of the slaves. After her move to New Orleans, she fights for her freedom and that of her own.
This 2011 edition is part of the Best Seller collection from Debolsillo. The novel was originally published in 2009.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, and for followers of Isabel Allende's work.
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.
