La é pica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos histó ricos má s relevantes del siglo XX. < p/> Desde 1920 -con la llamada « gripe españ ola'- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho má s que la historia de un siglo.
>Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresió n altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perderá todo y se verá obligada a retirarse a una regió n salvaje y remota del paí s. Allí Violeta alcanzará la mayorí a de edad y tendrá su primer pretendiente. . . < p/> En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las demá s, Violeta rememora devastadores desengañ os amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y tambié n de prosperidad, pé rdidas terribles e inmensas alegrí as. Moldeará n su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y caí da de tiranos y, en ú ltima instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias. < p/> Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasió n, una determinació n y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez má s, una historia é pica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva. < p/> ENGLISH DESCRIPTION < p/> This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. < p/> Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be 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. < p/> 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 all 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. . . < p/> 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. < p/> Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
