About the Author
Born in Peru and raised in Chile, ISABEL ALLENDE is the author of nine novels, including Ines of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Isabel Allende lives in California.
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Daughter of Fortune
Portrait in Sepia
My Invented Country
Zorro
Ines of My Soul
The Sum of Our Days
THE JAGUAR AND EAGLE TRILOGY
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Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Forest of the Pygmies
Credits
Jacket photography: woman (c) Symphonie/Getty Images; palm frond (c) Trevor Payne/Arcangel Images; gardenia (c) Jill Lang/iStockphoto; sugar cane (c) William Wang/iStockphoto; ochre wall (c) Juan Facundo Mora Soria/iStockphoto
Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin
Copyright
ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA. Copyright (c) 2010 by Isabel Allende. English-language translation copyright (c) 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allende, Isabel.
[Isla bajo el mar. English]
Island beneath the sea: a novel / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden--1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-198824-0 (hardback)
1. Racially mixed women--Fiction. 2. Women slaves--Fiction. 3. Sugar plantations--Fiction. 4. Plantation life--Fiction. 5. Haiti--Fiction. 6. Caribbean Area--Fiction. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.
PQ8098.1.L54I7813 2010
863'64-dc22
2009046251
EPub Edition (c) March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200289-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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