By Isabel Allende
Born a slave at the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ -- referred to as TÉtÉ -- is the daughter of an African mom she by no means knew and one of many white sailors who introduced her into bondage. even though her youth is one in all brutality and worry, TÉtÉ unearths solace within the conventional rhythms of African drums and within the voodoo loas she discovers via her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives at the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his luggage and desires of monetary luck in his brain. yet operating his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor effortless. it will likely be 8 years earlier than he brings domestic a bride -- yet marriage, too, proves more challenging than he imagined. And Valmorain is still depending on the providers of his teenaged slave.
Spanning 4 a long time, Island underneath the Sea is the relocating tale of the intertwined lives of TÉtÉ and Valmorain, and of 1 woman’s decision to discover love amid loss, to supply humanity although her personal has been battered, and to forge her personal id within the cruellest of circumstances.
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