Violeta
Allende, Isabel
Violeta comes into the world one stormy day in 1920, as the first girl in a family of five boisterous siblings. From the beginning, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, since the shock waves of the Great War are still felt when the Spanish flu reaches the shores of her native South American country, almost at the exact moment of her birth. . Thanks to the clairvoyance of her father, her family will come out of this crisis unscathed only to face a new one, when the Great Depression alters the elegant urban life that Violeta has known until now. Her family will lose everything and she will be forced to retire to a wild and remote part of the country. There Violeta will come of age and have her first suitor... In a letter addressed to a person whom she loves above all others, Violeta recalls devastating love disappointments and passionate romances, moments of poverty and also of prosperity, terrible losses and immense joys. Her life will be shaped by some of the great events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one, but two pandemics.
- Author
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Allende, Isabel
- Subject
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Literature
> Spanish narrative 20th-21st cent.
- EAN
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9788401027475
- ISBN
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978-84-01-02747-5
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
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Plaza & Janés
- Pages
- 400
- High
- 23.7 cm
- Weight
- 16.1 cm
- Release date
- 25-01-2022
- Language
- Spanish
- Series