![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout their inexorably intertwined lives, he depends on Tété to care for his ailing, insufferable wife act as a mother to his son and satisfy his sexual desires, a horrific chore that leads to their bastard child-the beautiful Rosette, whom Tété loves unconditionally, in spite of her painful genesis.Īfter the death of Valmorain’s wife, during the slave rebellion led by Toussaint Louverture, Tété saves her master’s life: She warns him that the plantation will be burned by rebels, and they flee to Cuba, then New Orleans. Her master is Toulouse Valmorain, a sugarcane plantation owner. The novel follows the life of Tété, a slave in the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) at the turn of the 19th century. And in Island Beneath the Sea, her first work of fiction since 2006, she asks us to confront a fundamental need that, for most, is taken entirely for granted: freedom-its cost, worth and meaning. As a storyteller, Isabel Allende is concerned with the most universal of themes: spirituality, motherhood, love. ![]()
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