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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This sweeping novel from the 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.
Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional..
Her life is 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.
She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy.
There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling.
Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country.
Through her father\'s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known.
From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for 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.
An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.-- People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This sweeping novel from the 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
