Island beneath the sea : a novel
Allende, Isabel (1942-)
Island beneath the sea : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden - 1st ed. - New York : Harper , 2010. - 457 p. ; 24 cm.
Zariete, known as Tete, is born a slave in Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue, in 1700. She is bought by Toulouse Valmorain, a young Frenchman whose ideals quickly disappear in the brutality of life on a sugar plantation. Tete tenderly cares for Valmorain's son and, since she is her master's property, bears two of the master's children herself. She helps Valmorain and the children escape just as the bloody violence of the slave revolt reaches the plantation. They set sail for New Orleans, a raucous city where Tete finds more family drama and, finally, love and freedom.
9780061988240
2009046251
Racially mixed people----Fiction
Women slaves----Fiction
Plantation life----Fiction
Haiti----Fiction
Caribbean area----Fiction
PQ8098.1.L54 / I7813 2010
LAS FIC ALL
Island beneath the sea : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden - 1st ed. - New York : Harper , 2010. - 457 p. ; 24 cm.
Zariete, known as Tete, is born a slave in Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue, in 1700. She is bought by Toulouse Valmorain, a young Frenchman whose ideals quickly disappear in the brutality of life on a sugar plantation. Tete tenderly cares for Valmorain's son and, since she is her master's property, bears two of the master's children herself. She helps Valmorain and the children escape just as the bloody violence of the slave revolt reaches the plantation. They set sail for New Orleans, a raucous city where Tete finds more family drama and, finally, love and freedom.
9780061988240
2009046251
Racially mixed people----Fiction
Women slaves----Fiction
Plantation life----Fiction
Haiti----Fiction
Caribbean area----Fiction
PQ8098.1.L54 / I7813 2010
LAS FIC ALL
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