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Violeta

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  • Running Time: 11:59 hrs
    Narrator: Yareli Arizmendi
    Publisher:
    Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 11:59 hrs
    Narrator: Yareli Arizmendi
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Allende, Isabel
    Contributor: Arizmendi, Yareli; ; Riddle, Frances; Allende, Isabel
    Date:
    Created
    2022
    Summary:

    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.

    Original Publisher: [S.I.], Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0593558871, 9780593558874