Books & Books, Miami Book Fair and independent book stores across the country present…

A Virtual Evening with

Isabel Allende

In Conversation with Victoria Alonso

Violeta: A Novel

(Ballantine Books, $28)

Saturday, January 29, 7 PM ET  | Via Zoom

GET TICKETS HERE

Books & Books is excited to partner with indies across the country for this special conversation with Isabel Allende! Tickets are bundled with the book (+tax/fee). The purchase of this ticket admits (1) one person into the virtual event and includes (1) one copy of the novel, Violeta (Ballantine Books, $28 + tax and fee). Please note: Violeta is available in English (only) for this event. A fee of $6 is included for U.S. domestic shipping of the book.

• Anderson’s Bookshop (IL)
• BookPassage (San Francisco, CA)
• Boswell Book Company (WI)
• Boulder Bookstore (CO)
• Changing Hands (AZ)
• Gibson’s Bookstore (NH)
• Left Bank Books (MO)
• Northshire (NY)
• Politics and Prose (D.C.)
• RJ Julia (CT)
• Square Books (MS)
• Tattered Cover (CO)
• The King’s English (UT)
• University Bookstore (WA)
• Village Books and Paper Dreams (WA)
• Warwicks (La Jolla, CA)

Once you make your purchase, we will send you a Zoom registration link (24 hours BEFORE) that will give you access to the event via private link. See below for detailed information on tickets.

About the Book:

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.

About the Author:

ISABEL ALLENDE: Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna, and Paula. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. She lives in California.

About the Moderator:

A native of Buenos Aires, VICTORIA ALONSA serves as President of Production for Marvel Studios and as an executive producer of all Marvel films which have amassed over $23 billion worldwide including “Shang-Chi”, “Black Widow, “Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain America,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Thor,” “Black Panther,” “Captain Marvel” as well as most recently, “Eternals”.

Alonso began her career in visual effects & production – from PA to VFX Producer and eventually joining Marvel as EVP of visual effects and post production.

.Alonso has become an important voice in Hollywood as a producer, a Latina, and a senior female executive. She was named one of People en Español Magazine’s top “Poderosa” Most Influential Hispanic Women in 2019 and 2020. On multiple occasions, she has been named to Variety’s Power of Women L.A. Impact Report and The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100. Alonso was honored in 2015 with the Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement from the New York Women in Film & Television. She was also the first woman to be presented with the Harold Lloyd Award from the Advanced Imaging Society, which is given to a filmmaker who has created a body of work and specific achievements in 3-D that advanced the motion picture art form. In 2017, she was the first woman to be honored with the Visionary Award at the 15^th Annual VES Awards for her advancement of unforgettable storytelling through visual effects.