“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.” — Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul, The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia) tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny.

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Annie and Snowball and the magical house

La isla bajo el mar

ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Cynthia Rylant; Suçie Stevenson

HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins e-books

Longman Publishing

HarperVia

Aladdin

Ready-to-read, 1st Aladdin hardcover ed, New York, 2010

Place of publication not identified, 2014

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2010

United States, United States of America

First edition, New York, ©2010

Fiction, New York, 2010

First Edition, PT, 2010

Reissue, 2010

lg_fict_id_1386386

topic: Racially mixed women; Women slaves; Sugar plantations; Plantation life

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Zarite
2. (p2) PART ONE
2.1. (p3) The Spanish Illness
2.2. (p4) Bird of Night
2.3. (p5) Dove's Egg
2.4. (p6) The Bride from Cuba
2.5. (p7) The Master's House
2.6. (p8) Zarite
2.7. (p9) The Lesson
2.8. (p10) Macandal
2.9. (p11) Zarite
2.10. (p12) The Intendant's Ball
2.11. (p13) The Madwoman of the Plantation
2.12. (p14) Ceremony Officiant
2.13. (p15) A Being Not Human
2.14. (p16) Zarite
2.15. (p17) The Concubine
2.16. (p18) Slave to Every Need
2.17. (p19) Zarite
2.18. (p20) Turbulent Times
2.19. (p21) Zarite
2.20. (p22) The Lovers
2.21. (p23) The Master's Children
2.22. (p24) Zarite
2.23. (p25) The Warrior
2.24. (p26) The Conspiracy
2.25. (p27) Uprising in the North
2.26. (p28) Zarite
2.27. (p29) Revenge
2.28. (p30) The Terror
2.29. (p31) The Taste of Freedom
2.30. (p32) Zarite
2.31. (p33) Fugitives
2.32. (p34) The Paris of the Antilles
2.33. (p35) Nights of Misfortune
2.34. (p36) Zarite
2.35. (p37) The Civil War
2.36. (p38) Blood and Ashes
2.37. (p39) Help to Die
2.38. (p40) The Punishment
3. (p41) PART TWO
3.1. (p42) Blue-Blooded Creoles
3.2. (p43) Zarite
3.3. (p44) Festivities
3.4. (p45) The Spanish Hidalgo
3.5. (p46) The Stepmother
3.6. (p47) Zarite
3.7. (p48) A Time of Hurricanes
3.8. (p49) Whiplashes
3.9. (p50) The Slave Village
3.10. (p51) Capitaine La Liberte
3.11. (p52) Refugees
3.12. (p53) The School in Boston
3.13. (p54) Zarite
3.14. (p55) A Promise to Be Kept
3.15. (p56) The Saint of New Orleans
3.16. (p57) Zarite
3.17. (p58) The Politics of the Day
3.18. (p59) The Americans
3.19. (p60) Rosette
3.20. (p61) Zarite
3.21. (p62) Maurice
3.22. (p63) Spies
3.23. (p64) The Bastard
3.24. (p65) Fear of Dying
3.25. (p66) Ball of the Sirens
3.26. (p67) To the Right of the Moon
3.27. (p68) In Love
3.28. (p69) Blood Ties
3.29. (p70) Two Nights of Love
3.30. (p71) Purgatory
3.31. (p72) Long Summer
3.32. (p73) In Jail
3.33. (p74) Zarite

theme: Racially mixed women; Women slaves; Sugar plantations; Plantation life

<p>Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarite&#151;known as Tete&#151;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, Tete finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.<p> 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&#151;but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.<p> Spanning four decades, <i>Island Beneath the Sea</i> is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tete 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.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>[Signature]Reviewed by Marlon JamesOf the many pitfalls lurking for the historical novel, the most dangerous is history itself. The best writers either warp it for selfish purposes (Gore Vidal), dig for the untold, interior history (Toni Morrison), or both (Jeannette Winterson). Allende, four years after Ines of My Soul, returns with another historical novel, one that soaks up so much past life that there is nowhere left to go but where countless have been. Opening in Saint Domingue a few years before the Haitian revolution would tear it apart, the story has at its center Zarit&eacute;, a mulatto whose extraordinary life takes her from that blood-soaked island to dangerous and freewheeling New Orleans; from rural slave life to urban Creole life and a different kind of cruelty and adventure. Yet even in the new city, Zarit&eacute; can't quite free herself from the island, and the people alive and dead that have followed her.Zarit&eacute;'s passages are striking. More than merely lyrical, they map around rhythms and spirits, making her as much conduit as storyteller. One wishes there was more of her because, unlike Allende, Zarit&eacute; is under no mission to show us how much she knows. Every instance, a brush with a faith healer, for example, is an opportunity for Allende to showcase what she has learned about voodoo, medicine, European and Caribbean history, Napoleon, the Jamaican slave Boukman, and the legendary Mackandal, a runaway slave and master of black magic who has appeared in several novels including Alejo Carpentier's Kingdom of This World. The effect of such display of research is a novel that is as inert as a history textbook, much like, oddly enough John Updike's Terrorist, a novel that revealed an author who studied a voluminous amount of facts without learning a single truth.Slavery as a subject in fiction is still a high-wire act, but one expects more from Allende. Too often she forgoes the restraint and empathy essential for such a topic and plunges into a heavy breathing prose reminiscent of the Falconhurst novels of the 1970s, but without the guilty pleasure of sexual taboo. Sex, overwritten and undercooked, is where &ldquo;opulent hips slithered like a knowing snake until she impaled herself upon his rock-hard member with a deep sigh of joy.&rdquo; Even the references to African spirituality seem skin-deep and perfunctory, revealing yet another writer too entranced by the myth of black cultural primitivism to see the brainpower behind it. With Ines of My Soul one had the sense that the author was trying to structure a story around facts, dates, incidents, and real people. Here it is the reverse, resulting in a book one second-guesses at every turn. Of course there will be a forbidden love. Betrayal. Incest. Heartbreak. Insanity. Violence. And in the end the island in the novel's title remains legend. Fittingly so, because to reach the Island Beneath the Sea, one would have had to dive deep. Allende barely skims the surface.Marlon James's recent novel, The Book of Night Women was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award.</p>

The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny—in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century “Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”—Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo.Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father's plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.

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.

Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritE'known as TEtE'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, TEtE finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa 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 trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Although Valmorain purchases young TEtE for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.

Annie takes her rabbit to the home of her new friend, Sarah, to play and enjoys seeing the pretty house full of frilly things, walking in the beautiful garden, and making a tiny garden house for a fairy tea party

2015-12-07