Island Beneath the Sea
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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S. Epatha Merkerson
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Written by:
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Isabel Allende
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is 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, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When 20-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, its with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his fathers plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride - but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tt and Valmorain, and of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
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- Rosein
- 2024-01-02
Great historical story
*****This review has spoilers****
The story is great and while enjoying this book, I have learnt many historical facts.
I gave 4 stars because of half brother and sister marriage. How it was portrayed as heroic made me flinch and the story lost me as of that point. However, I don’t know whether this was somewhat normal back then even though the suggested objections say otherwise in the story.
Overall, great story and great narration.
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