![]() ![]() After her father loses everything in the Great Depression, the family must relinquish their comfort in an old mansion in the nation’s capital and adopt a more modest life in the country’s rural south. Violeta tells of living through the Spanish flu pandemic as the youngest child and only daughter in a family of five sons. ![]() Photo: Houston ChronicleĬhilean writer Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “Violeta,” an epic tale that transports readers across a century of South American history, through economic collapse, dictatorship and natural disasters like an earthquake and a hurricane.įrom the aftermath of World War I to the present day, narrator Violeta del Valle recounts the story of her life in an unnamed South American country with a book-long letter to her grandson Camilo. ![]() Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “Violeta” transports readers across a century of South American history, through economic collapse, dictatorship and natural disasters like an earthquake and a hurricane. ![]()
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