Violet
A SPECIAL WOMAN
A LIFE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY
A SPECIAL WOMAN
A LIFE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY
Violeta was born in the midst of a storm in 1920. She was the first daughter of a family that already had five lively boys. From the beginning, her life was marked by special events: the turmoil of the Great War was still felt when the Spanish flu reached the shores of Latin America, where she was home, almost at the same time as her birth.
In a letter that Violeta writes to her most beloved person, she unfolds the story of her life, which covers a hundred years with unbearable misery and passionate love, wealth and poverty, terrible losses and great joys. Its path unfolded in parallel with the historical developments of an entire century and was shaped by the struggle for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants and, finally, not by one but by two pandemics.
Through the eyes of a woman who, thanks to her invaluable passion, determination and humor, managed to survive in turbulent times, Isabel Allende offers us once again an epic that inspires but also moves.