Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende
Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende
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Island Beneath the Sea
A Novel

Author: Isabel Allende

Narrator: S. Epatha Merkerson

Unabridged: 17 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/27/2010


Synopsis

“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”
— Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul, The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia) tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny.

About Isabel Allende

It is a good person who is a world renowned author, but says her best achievement is not her books, but the love she shares with a few people, especially her family, and having always tried to help people. Such are the thoughts of Isabel Allende, a Chilean author who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Hussein Obama. She has written: The House of the Spirits, and City of the Beasts. Her novels are considered to be the genre of magical realism. They are usually based on her own experiences, historical events, and pay homage to the lives of women. She also uses elements of myth and realism.

Allende was born in Lima, Peru. Her father was a cousin to Salvador Allende, the President of Chile from 1970 to 1973. Her father left her mother, so Isabel ended up moving to many places when her mother married a diplomat. In 1962 Isabel married an engineering student, when she moved back to Chile to complete her secondary education. She then led a dual life as obedient wife and mother, but in public was Barbara Cartland, well-known tv personality, a dramatist, and journalist with a feminine magazine.

Allende had jobs with the United Nations in Santiago, then Brussels and elsewhere. In Chile she translated books from English to Spanish, but was fired because she made some changes on her own (which were not appreciated) and was altering some endings from "happily ever after", to allow the heroine some independence to do good in the world.

She now runs the Isabel Allende Foundation, founded in 1996 to honor the author's daughter Paula Frias, who passed away at age 29. They award life-changing grants to women to improve their care.


Reviews

Goodreads review by هدى

في هذه الجزيرة المسحورة تحت البحر تتعانق أرواحٌ سمراء راقصين فيها إلى الأبد على دقات طبول لا مرئية فهم يحملون الإيقاعات في أرواحهم ~~**~~ العالم يهتز الايقاع يولد في الجزيرة تحت البحر يهز الأرض يخترقني كوميض برق ويمضي إلى السماء حاملًا أحزاني كي يمضغها بابا بوندي ويبتلعها ويخلقني نظيفة من الهموم وسعيدة الطبو......more

Goodreads review by Claire

The flyleaf review on this book promised that it was written with all kinds of "native wit and brio." sic. Well, I fear this surfeit of wit and brio was somehow waylaid between press and the bookstand, because I'm halfway through, and now hoping I can find the grim stamina to just hang on and finish......more