Violeta also tells about the coups and military uprisings and similar horror of 1970s which seemed to encapsulate the whole of South America. In a way Violeta reminds of Isabel's earlier work, The House of Spirits, which dealt with personal and political upheaval spanned over decades. Soon though her father loses everything in the Great Depression and the family had to relocate from the comforts of their mansion in the capital to the modest rural countryside. The story starts with Violeta being born in an influential family on a stormy night. She writes a letter to her grown up grandson telling him about her multiple difficulties. The book depicts the scene during the 2020 pandemic, where Violeta is breathing her last as a ripe old woman of 100 years. She was the youngest daughter of her family and had five older brothers. Violeta was born in 1920 amid the Spanish flu epidemic in an unnamed South American country. Violeta tells the story of the author Violeta Del Valle. Violeta in the book recalls all she has seen and experienced in an unnamed South American country spanning 100 years. It is a fictional autobiographical account of the life of Violeta Del Valle and how she witnessed the various upheavals of the 20th century. Violeta is a 2022 novel by Chilean-American author Isabel Allende.
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