El Viento Conoce mi Nombre Contemporary Novel by Isabel Allende Editorial Sudamericana (Spanish Edition)

THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME Isabel Allende

• Publisher: Sudamericana
• Pages: 352
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 9789500769013
• Classification: Fiction & Literature - Novels

Book Review: Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is a six-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears during the Night of Broken Glass, when his family loses everything. His desperate mother secures him a place on a train that will take him from Nazi Austria to England. Samuel embarks on a new journey with his faithful violin and the weight of loneliness and uncertainty, which will accompany him throughout his long life. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, seven-year-old Anita Diaz boards another train with her mother to escape imminent danger in El Salvador and seek exile in the United States. Their arrival coincides with a new and relentless government policy that separates her from her mother at the border. Alone and scared, far from everything familiar, Anita takes refuge in Azabahar, the magical world that exists only in her imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, and Frank Angileri, a successful lawyer, struggle to reunite the girl with her mother and offer her a better future. In The Wind Knows My Name, past and present intertwine to narrate the drama of uprooting and the redemption of solidarity, compassion, and love. A contemporary novel about the sacrifices parents sometimes must make for their children, about the surprising ability of some children to survive violence while still dreaming, and about the tenacity of hope, which can shine even in the darkest moments.