Island Beneath the sea

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Call Number: Fiction / Allende, Isabel, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Allende, Isabel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Allende, Isabel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Allende, Isabel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Allende, Isabel	4-week checkout	Reshelving
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Allende, Isabel	4-week checkout	Due 04-25-2024

The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great story and taught me much submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 17, 2014, 8:12pm A really amazing novel about the founding of Haiti and early New Orleans history told alternately from a third person omniscient point of view and (on occasion) through the recollections of a freed slave woman who lived through the times. It was deep and heart-wrenching, touching and passionate, brutal at times and felt astonishing well-researched (although to be honest, I have not read enough other history of these places to know for sure).

This was not a fast or easy read, as the history and politics of these places are thoroughly covered in the storytelling, but they are so well done that they are not painful to pull through. It is character and story that draw me, so sometimes history and politics can lose me, but not in this one. This was amazing. Not many books get added to our shelves these days, as they are already so full, but this one is a keeper.