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Author's name: Isabel Allende Publisher: Dar Al-Adab for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A life between two pandemics, beginning with the Spanish flu, and ending with the coronavirus. In letters dripping with sweetness and pulsating with life, Violeta tells her passionate story over a century of time, passing through various stages of her long life. We see her as a spoiled child in the wealthy family home, which becomes cramped due to the Great Depression; as a dreamy girl in the enchanting Chilean countryside; as a loving woman forging her way in a male-dominated world; then as a tormented mother with her son's and daughter's fates; and finally as a grandmother full of enthusiasm for life more than ever before. All of this within a historic framework filled with major events that shaped our world as we know it today.