Island beneath the sea by isabel allende5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.Īgainst the merciless backdrop of sugarcane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. ![]() But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves. Int'l Women's Conference - México, 2013īorn on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité-known as Tété-is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony, 2017. ![]()
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