02201cam a2200421 i 4500 551233738 TxAuBib 20220317120000.0 220113s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593496206 hardcover 0593496205 hardcover (OCoLC)1291896846 TxAuBib rda eng spa Allende, Isabel. Violeta English. Violeta : A Novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle. First U.S. edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] ©2022. 322 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. 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. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be 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. -- adapted from jacket. 20220317. New York Times Best Sellers Fiction. Epidemics Fiction. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Fiction. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Fiction. Families Fiction. Women's rights Fiction. Latin America History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Riddle, Frances,. TXMAR