Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso da de 1920, siendo la primera nia de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estar marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todava se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe espaola llega a las orillas de su pas sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldr indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresin altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perder todo y se ver obligada a retirarse a una regin salvaje y remota del pas. All Violeta alcanzar la mayora de edad y tendr su primer pretendiente... En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las dems, Violeta rememora devastadores desengaos amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y tambin de prosperidad, prdidas terribles e inmensas alegras. Moldearn su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y cada de tiranos y, en ltima instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias. Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasin, una determinacin y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez ms, una historia pica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling 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. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be 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. 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. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling... She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be 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. Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso da de 1920, siendo la primera nia de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estar marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todava se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe espaola llega a las orillas de su pas sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldr indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresin altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perder todo y se ver obligada a retirarse a una regin salvaje y remota del pas. All Violeta alcanzar la mayora de edad y tendr su primer pretendiente... En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las dems, Violeta rememora devastadores desengaos amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y tambin de prosperidad, prdidas terribles e inmensas alegras. Moldearn su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y cada de tiranos y, en ltima instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias. Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasin, una determinacin y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez ms, una historia pica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling 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. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be 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. 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. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling... She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be 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. Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
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