Books with title The Cave Beneath the Sea

Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zaritɗknown as TÉtɗis 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 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 TÉtÉ for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Against the merciless backdrop of sugarcane fields, the lives of TÉtÉ and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the brutal conditions of the French colony, soon to become Haiti, for the raucous, free-wheeling enterprise of New Orleans. There TÉtÉ finally forges a new life, but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not easily severed. With an impressive richness of detail, and a narrative wit and brio second to none, Allende crafts the riveting story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge a new identity in the cruelest of circumstances.

Pub Date: 2011-06-01 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Isabel Allende was born in 1942. and is the niece of Salvador Allende. who went on to become famous as the elected President of Chile deposed in a CIA- backed coup. Her first novel for adults. 'The House of the Spirits'. was published in Spanish in 1982. beginning life as a letter to her dying grandfather. It was an international sensation. and ever since all her books have been acclaimed and adored in numberless translations worldwide. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

It is Spring time. Before going to the beach, the family takes a stroll through a meadow and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature as Mother Earth renews herself. But, the real adventure doesn't begin until strange footprints are discovered in the beach sand. What will the intrepid adventurers find? This is a gentle story without violence or other situations, which I consider to be no good for young readers. I think kids will like it.