´With this admirable novel, Allende cements her reputation as a writer of wíde scope and amazing talent.´áLos Angeles Times Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue- the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage Zarité, known as Tété, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo.áWhen twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father´s plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. Marriage also proves problematical when, eight years later, he brings home a bride. But it is his teenaged slave, Tété, upon whom Valmorain becomes most dependent, as their lives intertwine across four tumultuous decades.áIn Island Beneath the Sea, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende spins the unforgettable saga of an extraordinary woman determined to find love amid loss and forge her own identity under the cruelest of circumstances.
