About the Author

  Born in Peru and raised in Chile, ISABEL ALLENDE is the author of nine novels, including Ines of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Isabel Allende lives in California.

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  ALSO BY

  Isabel Allende

  The House of the Spirits

  Of Love and Shadows

  Eva Luna

  The Stories of Eva Luna

  The Infinite Plan

  Paula

  Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

  Daughter of Fortune

  Portrait in Sepia

  My Invented Country

  Zorro

  Ines of My Soul

  The Sum of Our Days

  THE JAGUAR AND EAGLE TRILOGY

  City of the Beasts

  Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

  Forest of the Pygmies

  Credits

  Jacket photography: woman (c) Symphonie/Getty Images; palm frond (c) Trevor Payne/Arcangel Images; gardenia (c) Jill Lang/iStockphoto; sugar cane (c) William Wang/iStockphoto; ochre wall (c) Juan Facundo Mora Soria/iStockphoto

  Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin

  Copyright

  ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA. Copyright (c) 2010 by Isabel Allende. English-language translation copyright (c) 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Allende, Isabel.

  [Isla bajo el mar. English]

  Island beneath the sea: a novel / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden--1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-198824-0 (hardback)

  1. Racially mixed women--Fiction. 2. Women slaves--Fiction. 3. Sugar plantations--Fiction. 4. Plantation life--Fiction. 5. Haiti--Fiction. 6. Caribbean Area--Fiction. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.

  PQ8098.1.L54I7813 2010

  863'64-dc22

  2009046251

  EPub Edition (c) March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200289-1

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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