Isabel Allende: The Wind Knows My Name, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Wind Knows My Name
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury UK, 05/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526660329
- Item number:
- 11578993
- Volume:
- 272 Pages
- Weight:
- 154 g
- Format:
- 175 x 109 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 28.5.2024
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL ' What a joy it must be to come upon Allende for the first time' - COLUM MCCANN
No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita's mother.
Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers - and never stop dreaming.
Biography
Isabel Allende, geboren 1942 in Lima, ist eine der weltweit beliebtesten Autorinnen. Ihre Bücher haben sich millionenfach verkauft und sind in mehr als 40 Sprachen übersetzt worden. 2018 wurde sie – und damit erstmals jemand aus der spanischsprachigen Welt – für ihr Lebenswerk mit der National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters ausgezeichnet. Isabel Allendes gesamtes Werk ist im Suhrkamp Verlag erschienen.
