![]() ![]() ![]() At its best, Island Beneath the Sea is elegant, moving and infused with a real sense of loss. While Allende has always been comfortable chronicling grand passion and deep love, she's at her best here when she's angry - her descriptions of the treatment of Valmorain's slaves, particularly the sexual assault of Tete, are shocking. Island Beneath the Sea follows a young woman born into slavery, Tete, and her master, Toulouse Valmorain, through Haiti and New Orleans, over several years. ![]() Her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea, is a sprawling, multifaceted historical epic, like her 1982 best-seller, The House of Spirits, and her underrated Ines of My Soul. After a discussion of the relevance of the slave narrative and a brief. Isabel Allende's appeal as a novelist hasn't just been her fascinating background - she grew up in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Lebanon and was the cousin of deposed Chilean President Salvador Allende - but also her lyrical, enchanting narrative style, at times a kind of Day-Glo version of magical realism. Laura Fish Strange Music (2008) and Andrea Levys The Long Song (2010)as. ![]()
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