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Le eroine di Isabel Allende recano tutte il medesimo tratto dominante: la passione. Sono le passioni a scolpirne il destino. E Zarité Sedella, detta Tété, ultima incarnazione della donna come la vuole Isabel, non fa eccezione. 1770, Santo Domingo, ora Haiti. Tété ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perché si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, i campi di canna da zucchero, la calura sfibrante dell'isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. Tété impara presto com'è fatto quel mondo: la violenza dei padroni, l'ansia di libertà, i vincoli preziosi della solidarietà. Quando Valmorain si sposta nelle piantagioni della Louisiana, anche Tété deve seguirlo, ma ormai è cominciata la battaglia per la dignità, per il futuro, per l'affrancamento degli schiavi. È una battaglia lenta che si mescola al destarsi di amori e passioni, all'annodarsi di relazioni e alleanze, al muoversi febbrile dei personaggi più diversi - soldati e schiavi guerrieri, sacerdoti vudù e frati cattolici, matrone e cocottes, pirati e nobili decaduti, medici e oziosi bellimbusti. Contro il fondale animatissimo della storia, Zarité Sedella, soprannominata Tété, spicca bella e coraggiosa, battagliera e consapevole, un'eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano a rammentarci la fede nella libertà e la dignità delle passioni.
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Fiction, Colonies, Social conditions, Slaves, Spanish language materials, Sugar plantations, Condiciones sociales, Colonias, Plantation owners, Cultivo, Caña de azúcar, Esclavos, Ficción, Fiction, historical, general, Slaves, fiction, Haiti, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, Women slaves, Racially mixed women, Plantation life, Easy reading materials, Play, Friendship, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, historical, Caribbean area, fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-05-16, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, 18.33 Spanish-American literature, Roman historique, Esclavage, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Haitians, History, Mujeres mestizas, Novela, Esclavas, Plantaciones de azúcar, Vida en las plantaciones, FICTION, Historical, Literary, Magical Realism, Spanish colonies, Historical fiction, España, Sklaverei, BefreiungPlaces
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18th century, 18e siècle, Siglo XVIIIShowing 11 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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La isla bajo el mar
2009, Sudamericana
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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