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Violence
Some
Historical political violence; references to dictatorship and coups; some deaths
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships across a century; some mature content
Substance Use
Barely any
Period drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of a century of loss and survival; the specific trauma of political violence in Latin America
What this book is about
Violeta del Valle is born in 1920 during the Spanish flu, in a South American country never named. She dies one hundred years later during COVID-19. In between she witnesses the fall of dictatorships, the rise of feminism, coups, exile, the AIDS crisis, and the loves and losses of a long life lived at the center of South American history. Isabel Allende's novel is written as a letter from Violeta to her beloved grandson — a testament to what one woman carried and what she passed on.
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historical political violence and dictatorship
intergenerational trauma
mature romantic themes
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