Island beneath the sea
(2010)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Harper Collins Publishers : Made available through hoopla, 2010
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (17hr., 55 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9780061997556 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11586663, 0061997552 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11586663
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by S. Epatha Merkerson

Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zariť-known as Tť̌-is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he purchases young Tť̌ for his bride. Yet it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tť̌ and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives, they flee the brutal conditions of the French colony that will become Haiti for the raucous, free-wheeling enterprise of New Orleans. There, Tť̌ finally forges a new life, but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not easily severed. Isabel Allende crafts the riveting story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruelest of circumstances

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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