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4.5 stars rounded upVioleta is born in 1920 in South America during the Spanish flu, the first girl after five boys and several miscarriages. Violeta tells her story to someone she loves when she’s approaching her 100th birthday—during yet another pandemic, this time COVID 19. During those hundred years, there is the upheaval of the Great Depression, marriage to someone she doesn’t love and a long-lasting but emotionally and sometimes physical abusive affair to a man she does. She has children a...
I have long admired Isabel Allende’s gift for superior and epic storytelling. Violeta may just be her greatest accomplishment to date. As soon as I began reading Violeta I found that I was transported to another time and place. Once again, Isabel Allende wrote about a strong female protagonist. The female protagonist, Violeta Del Valle, possessed the qualities of independence, superior intellect and common sense, compassion, kindness, good business sense and the ability to make sound decisions.
My annual midwinter break read of an Allende book. With my busy life I will give the author and book justice later but as usual Allende brings me a warm heart and both a smile and tears to my face. Having read her for most of my life Violeta is yet another intimate cup of tea with an old friend.
It's been a long time since I've read an Isabel Allende novel, but I do recall loving The House of the Spirits back in the day. My memory of that book is nothing at all like my experience with Violeta.The best way I can describe this book is that it narrates events without passion or urgency, in an unnamed country, through the eyes of a narrator we never come to know. I felt extremely distanced from the story's events throughout the whole book. Though tragedy strikes often-- suicide, life-or-dea...
Violeta Del Valle now 100, writes to her much loved grandson Camilo and tells him the story of her incredible life. Violeta was born in 1920 in the midst of the Spanish Flu epidemic which like everywhere else ravages Chile and she will die in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic, a strangely symmetrical coincidence of a life circle completed. It’s an amazing story of riches to rags following the 1929 Wall Street Crash and her family’s exile from the capital to Nahuel in the south of Chile where
The year is 1920, in an unnamed country in South America. Violeta is born into Del Valles family with five boys, a father who takes risky ventures, and mother who refuses to socialize. Violeta relates her story in a form of a letter to someone she dearly loves. Through her eyes, we see dramatic changes in a span of one person’s lifetime. When the stock market crashes in September 1929, her father’s bold decisions leave the family in a dire situation. The oldest son, Jose Antonio, turns out to be...
4.5 stars, rounded upThis is only my second book by Isabel Allende, but once again I was entranced. She manages to weave personal stories into the details of the time and place. Violeta is 100 years old and is writing out the story of her life for her grandson. Starting with the Spanish Flu, which hit Chile in 1920, the story progresses through the Great Depression, The Cuban Revolution, the Chilean military dictatorship and all the major stories of the 20th century. It was interesting to learn
"There is no greater power on this earth than story." (Libba Bray)Isabel Allende stands among the best of the best when it comes to portraying stories that grip you hard and then soften like sheer down. Violeta is long in its telling. Allende is detailed in leaving no stone unturned in describing political upheaval and presenting the deep cuts of loss. She hunches your shoulders over every petal and over every thorn. She frustrates you, at times, with the unending throngs of characters around ev...
