La Isla Bajo el Mar (Hardcover) by Isabel Allende

from schmechi

Allende erzählt die Geschichte der schwarzen Sklavin Zarité und ihrem Streben nach Freiheit. Allende hat einen wunderbaren Roman geschaffen, der sich neben ihren bekannteren Werken keineswegs zu verstecken braucht. Allende erzählt eine große (Familien-)geschichte mit liebevoll in Szene gesetzten ...

from froxgirl

This novel, told by Tete, an enslaved woman of Haiti and Louisiana, is filled with graphic detail about the Haitian revolution and of the lives of women in the Caribbean - drudgery and finery, depending on desirability as a sexual partner or a sugar cane cutter, or both. It's also about the privi...

from TheLostEntwife

I'm not unfamiliar with sweeping sagas or stories of slaves - but I am unfamiliar with many of the events that were taking place around the time period of this story. I'm not sure what made me interested in picking it up, but whatever it was.. I'm glad it did. Island Beneath the Sea was the perfe...

from judithrs

Island Beneath the Sea. Isabel Allende. 2010. My first Allende book was a pleasant surprise. For some reason I steer away from magical realism and that is why I never had any desire to read this author. This was a straight forward historical novel set in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and in New Orleans....

from santhony

I ordered this novel immediately after having read the author's The House of the Spirits. I found this novel to be very similar in style and substance to the aforementioned work, which in this case is a good thing. Whereas the former work was a highly educational look at early 20th century Chile,...