I do not have very long to wait since the book below is going to hit the shelves next week, April 27th. I admit I haven't read all Allende's books but the ones I did were positively charming and this upcoming book of hers promises to be just such a little gem.
Publisher's description:Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Seais the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende will be published in hardcover by HarperCollins on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010.
Sound epic, but very interesting. Like the strand of voodoo in the summary.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of this author's books...I'm intrigued by this one. Going on the list! Great pick...
ReplyDeleteAhh great pick! Looks so good. My WOW and review of Day For Night by Frederick Reiken are up at The Crowded Leaf.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Allende was coming out with a new book! Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteMe too...this sounds excellent; great pick!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Allende had another book coming out, thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since I've read one of hers, but I've always enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteGreat pick Lilly. I've seen another of her books that I'd really like to read although I can't remember the name right now. This one sounds good as well.
ReplyDeleteIsabel Allende is wonderful, isn't she? I started reading her books in college.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know she had a new one coming out!!! Way to stay on top of the book world!!!
ReplyDeleteI adore her writing ~ her tales are truly epic and the characters so alive! I can't wait to read your review, but i'm going to add this one to my TBR list too!!! Thanks!