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Violeta : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle.
Van Pelt Library PQ8098.1.L54 V5613 2022
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Allende Violeta
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allende, Isabel, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Violeta. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights.
- History.
- Latin America--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Latin America.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
- Reminiscing in old age.
- Epidemics--Fiction.
- Epidemics.
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--Fiction.
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Fiction.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Women's rights--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. 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. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be 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. -- adapted from jacket
- "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling 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"-- Provided by publisher
- Notes:
- "Published in Spanish by Plaza & Janes, a member of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Barcelona, Spain ©2022" -- Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- ISBN:
- 9780593496206
- 0593496205
- OCLC:
- 1291896846
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