華盛頓郵報、美麗佳人等各大媒體昂首期盼
　　擁有西語作家第一人之美譽的伊莎貝・阿言德再次推出史詩巨作
 
　　透過不平凡的百歲女子之眼，再次反思近百年間的重大歷史
 
　　一個未知其名的南美洲某國都市裡，Violeta在風雨交雜的天氣下出生。是的，這位有著五個哥哥的么女，似乎出生就註定了不平凡的一生，畢竟那是社會上還殘存著一戰後的各種情緒，以及南美洲剛大爆發西班牙流感疫情的1920年。但好在她的父親有著先見之明，一家人得以逃過上述的天災人禍。即便如此，卻仍未逃過經濟大蕭條，這不僅讓他們家失去了幾乎所有的財產，也失去了家中的經濟支柱－父親。他們被迫搬遷到鄉野之間。Violeta在這裡成長，也在這裡遇到了她的初戀。
 
　　整篇故事以Violeta執筆的書信娓娓道來，獻給Violeta此生的摯愛。她這一生的軌跡與那些歷史痕跡重疊：女權意識抬頭、暴君的崛起與墜落，以及兩場嚴重的全球性疫情。有撕心裂肺的悲痛，也有不禁放聲大喊的狂喜；經歷了大富大貧與擁有和失去，Violeta精彩的一生，如一齣濃縮的華麗史劇，等著讀者細細品味。

(文／博客來編譯)　
　　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.

　　Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is 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.

　　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 everything 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.

　　She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is 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.

　　Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
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