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S'està carregant… Violeta [English Edition]: A Novel (edició 2022)de Isabel Allende (Autor), Frances Riddle (Traductor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Violeta Del Valle comes into this world at Camellia House, her family’s compound in the capital city, during a storm just as the “scourge”, i.e., the Spanish flu pandemic, reaches her South American country in 1920. Based on the descriptions of the topography and the political history, it is apparently Chile, although it is never mentioned by name, nor are the cities’ names real. Named for her “illustrious great-grandmother who had embroidered the shield of the first flag after independence, in the 1880s”, Violeta is the youngest of six surviving children of her upper-class parents, Arsenio and Maria Gracia Del Valle, and she is raised largely by her two spinster aunts, Pia and Pilar. Only her eldest brother, Jose Antonio, really factors into the story. This epistolary novel is narrated by Violeta through letters to her grandson Camilo, a Jesuit priest for some decades by the time Isabel is dying, describing the century of internal conflict, military coups, discrimination, love, lust, joy, tragedy, betrayal, brutality, the systematic erasure of indigenous culture, death, earthquakes, and the pandemics bookending Violeta’s rich life. Like so many of Ms. Allende’s female characters, Violeta is a strong independent woman who lives her life just as she wants to, passionately and economically independently, regardless of the fallout, which sometimes leaves others she loves wounded. I found the last quarter of the book or so a bit meandering and not quite as well developed as what came before, but it was nevertheless a beautiful written, compelling story. On a personal scale, Violeta by Isabel Allende is about love, betrayal, loss, joy, and every emotion that encompasses a woman’s life. One a broader scale, Violeta is about a hundred years of Chilean history. What makes this book work is the main character. The first person narration, even in letters looking back, places me as the reader in the heart of the story with all the emotion that entails. Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2023/12/violeta.html Reviewed for NetGalley. Violetta Del Valle was born during a storm during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1920. She dies 100 years later during the coronavirus pandemic. This story is narrated by her in the form of a letter to her grandson Camilo who she raised. It begins during her childhood in her country's capital, continues into their exile to a primitive farm in Santa Clara in the south of Chili, recounts her life, loves, and children's successes and failures along with her penchant for working and making money in her brother Juan Antonio's fabrication business in Sacramento. In her life she has several lovers, two children, and one grandchild whom she raises while traveling to Miami, Los Angeles, and from Santiago, to Sacramento, to Santa Clara at the end of South America where she always returns. Along the way she narrates the conditions under which she lives during the changes from democracy to autocracy and eventually back to democracy with more freedom for women. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? This sweeping novel from the 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. ??An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.???People Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is 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 everything 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 times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is 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. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento.
Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresión altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perderá todoy se verá obligada a retirarse a una región salvaje y remota del país. Allí Violeta alcanzará la mayoría de edad y tendrá su primer pretendiente...
En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las demás, Violeta rememora devastadores desengaños amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y también de prosperidad, pérdidas terribles e inmensas alegrías. Moldearán su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y caída de tiranos y, en última instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias.