the island under the sea is the one refuge to the slaves of the sugar cane plantations in the 18th Hinwünschen century. Their life expectancy is generally short, only a few make it to gray hair, it is the time of the Sun King Louis XVI.
Europe was probably really busy with themselves. After the French Revolution also changes on Saint-Domingue (later Haiti), some that the West discuss equal rights for all people.
entirely in the slave colonies unthinkable since slaves property, goods, are.
the basis of the lead actress, Zarit, a mulatto, Allende tells the story of blacks and mixed blood, the Americans and the planter, the aristocratic Spaniards and French, so fluid, compelling and menschennah that you can not stop reading.
The book is beautifully written - Allende surpasses itself once again
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