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VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION] - ISABEL ALLENDE KART...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea
tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle  a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears
witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.An immersive saga about a
passion-filled life.”—People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar  Real Simple  Reader’s
Digest Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920  the first girl in a family with
five boisterous sons. From the start  her life is marked by extraordinary events  for the
ripples of the Great War are still being felt  even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of
her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience
the family will come through that crisis unscathed  only to face a new one as the Great
Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is
forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There  she will come
of age  and her first suitor will come calling. She tells her story in the form of a letter to
someone she loves above all others  recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate
affairs  poverty and wealth  terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the
most important events of history: the fight for women’s rights  the rise and fall of tyrants 
and ultimately not one  but two pandemics. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable
passion  determination  and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval  Isabel
Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.

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