Author: Isabel Allende
- Fiction
- Vintage Books USA 
- ISBN:  9780307476050
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Nancy Klasterka

This epic of racism and rebellion begins in Haiti and ends in New Orleans after the Haitian Revolution. The multi-faceted plot explores a complicated and troubled relationship between a slave owner and a slave whose ingenuity and resilience offset the novel’s violence and injustice.