Violeta :
a novel /
Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle.

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Main Author
Allende, Isabel
Related Names
Allende, Isabel.
Riddle, Frances, translator.
Language(s)
English
Published
©2022
New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Subjects
Epidemics > Fiction.
Old age > Fiction.
Women's rights.
Families.
Epidemics.
FICTION > Hispanic & Latino.
FICTION > World Literature > Chile.
FICTION > Historical > General.
Femmes > Droits > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919 > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Souvenir chez la personne âgée > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
History, 20th Century.
Women's Rights.
Women.
COVID-19.
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919.
Epidemics.
Women's rights > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Fiction.
Epidemics > Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Latin America > History > Fiction.
Latin America.
Amérique latine > Histoire > 20e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Latin America.
Latin America > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Romans.
Novels.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Fictional Work
Magical realism.
Summary
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics.--
"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Note
"Published in Spanish by Plaza & Janes, a member of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Barcelona, Spain ©2022"--Title page verso
Physical Description
322 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN


0593496205
9780593496206
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