THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A
grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY
MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende for the first time' - COLUM MCCANN No we're
not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old
when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As
her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on
the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone
carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona 2019. Eight decades later
Anita Diaz and her mother board another train fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and
seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation
policy and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her
tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile
Selena Duran a young social worker enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of
tracking down Anita's mother. Intertwining past and present The Wind Knows My Name tells the
tale of these two unforgettable characters both in search of family and home. It is both a
testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive
the most unfathomable dangers - and never stop dreaming.
