Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Island Beneath the Sea

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende  457 pp.

The newest book by one of my favorite authors. This novel is the story of Zarite, known as Tete, a mixed race slave growing up in Haiti--then the French Colony of San Domingue--in the 1770s. She becomes the property of a French sugar plantation owner named Valmorain and their lives end up entertwined in many different ways. After the slave rebellion began in 1791, Valmorain escapes to Cuba with his son, Maurice, and Tete and to eventually settle in New Orleans. Throughout the story, which spans several decades, Tete struggles against the cruel system of slavery to gain freedom for herself and her daughter and her subsequent children.Well written, as I've come to expect from this author.

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