The island under the sea

Name: The island under the sea
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SKU: 9788528614442
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Autor: Isabel Allende

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Sinopse

The Island Beneath the Sea takes us back to the late 18th century, to Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti, where sugarcane plantations transformed the French-colonized island into the richest colony in the world. Sugar was sweet gold, and cutting the cane, crushing it, and turning it into molasses was not the work of people, but of animals, as the planters said.

Toulouse Valmorain had just turned twenty when he was urgently summoned to the colony to take over the administration of the Habitation Saint-Lazare. The young man of letters, who planned to pursue a career in science in France, purchased Zarité, a tiny nine-year-old slave, to perform domestic work.

Wealth and prosperity will make Valmorain the true "slave master." The hardships of labor in the sugarcane fields and the beatings of enslaved Black people will be borne by his overseer. In return, he will be entitled to the pleasures of bed with Zarité, who will not know the suffocation and suffering of the slave quarters.

But Zarité—Tété—was born with a lucky star: an orphan, she received paternal love from the old enslaved man Honoré, who taught her to dance, for "a slave who dances is free... while dancing." She also learned from Tante Rose, the mambo , "leaf doctor," the mysteries of the loas and the secrets to healing and easing the pain of her brothers of color. She fell in love with Gambo, the handsome slave warrior, and with him, she discovered love. She had four children and a grandson. She cared for her mistress with zeal and dedication. And throughout her life, she had only one aspiration: freedom.

Then, after a rebellion in the colony, tired of the constant mistreatment they are subjected to, the enslaved people set fire to the plantation . Zarité flees with her master, Valmorain, to New Orleans, the first step on her path to the dignity she was denied while enslaved. Today, at the height of her forties, she affirms that she has been luckier than most, that she will live a long life, and her old age will be happy because her star—her z'étoile —shines even on cloudy nights.

In The Island Beneath the Sea , Isabel Allende, the most widely read Spanish-language writer in the world, once again demonstrates her exceptional talent for storytelling, composing, under the gaze of Zarité, in her tireless search for freedom, a sensitive portrait of one of the most abominable events in the history of humanity: slavery.

ISBN	978-852-861-444-2
Tradutor	Ernani Ssó
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	27 mm
Lançamento	28/07/2010
Páginas	476

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Sobre o autor

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende, nascida no Peru e criada no Chile, é romancista, feminista, filantropa e uma das autoras mais lidas do mundo, tendo vendido mais de 80 milhões de exemplares de seus livros em 42 idiomas. Além de escrever, Isabel dedica muito de seu tempo a causas ligadas aos direitos humanos. Ela foi agraciada com 15 doutorados honorários, incluída no California Hall of Fame, e recebeu o Prêmio PEN Center Lifetime Achievement e o Prêmio Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement. Em 2014, o ex-presidente Barack Obama a condecorou com a Medalha da Liberdade nos Estados Unidos, a mais elevada distinção civil da nação, e, em 2018, ela recebeu a Medalha de Contribuição Distinta à Literatura Americana da National Book Foundation. Ela mora na Califórnia com o marido e seus cachorros, um dos quais se chama Perla.

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