by Isabel Allende · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781526648358
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«Violeta» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Violeta del Valle is born in 1920, the only daughter among five sons, and her life spans a century of wars, crises, and two pandemics. The novel, written as a letter to a great love, covers passionate loves, losses, poverty and wealth, the fight for women's rights, and the rise and fall of tyrants.
Translated into English by Frances Riddle, it was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2022 in the historical fiction category.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for book clubs.
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.
