{"first_publish_date": "2009", "title": "La isla bajo el mar", "subject_times": ["18th century", "18e si\u00e8cle", "Siglo XVIII"], "subject_places": ["Spain", "America", "Haiti", "Caribbean Area", "Saint-Domingue", "Am\u00e9rique", "Espa\u00f1a", "Am\u00e9rica", "Dominican Republic", "Louisiana"], "lc_classifications": ["PQ8098.1.L54 I78 2009"], "key": "/works/OL1905293W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL228079A"}}], "dewey_number": ["863/.64"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Colonies", "Social conditions", "Slaves", "Spanish language materials", "Sugar plantations", "Condiciones sociales", "Colonias", "Plantation owners", "Cultivo", "Ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar", "Esclavos", "Ficci\u00f3n", "Fiction, historical, general", "Slaves, fiction", "Haiti, fiction", "New orleans (la.), fiction", "Women slaves", "Racially mixed women", "Plantation life", "Easy reading materials", "Play", "Friendship", "Juvenile fiction", "Fiction, historical", "Caribbean area, fiction", "nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-05-16", "New York Times bestseller", "New York Times reviewed", "18.33 Spanish-American literature", "Roman historique", "Esclavage", "Romans, nouvelles", "Histoire", "Haitians", "History", "Mujeres mestizas", "Novela", "Esclavas", "Plantaciones de az\u00facar", "Vida en las plantaciones", "Historical", "Literary", "Magical Realism", "Spanish colonies", "Historical fiction", "Espa\u00f1a", "Sklaverei", "Befreiung"], "covers": [9985801, 6375466, 9079148, 9109465, 9113440, 8022370, 10123916, 6254707, 10438366, 10781460, 12594989, 12455270, 12180999, 12295667, 12639090, 12466974, 12937236, 13122066, 13555537, 14092102, 14092103, 13951548, 12325124], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit\u00e9 -- known as T\u00e9t\u00e9 -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, T\u00e9t\u00e9 finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.\r\n\r\nWhen twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it\u2019s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father\u2019s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.\r\n\r\nSpanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of T\u00e9t\u00e9 and Valmorain, and of one woman\u2019s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.\r\n\r\n\r\nTranslated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden."}, "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/Bahadur-t.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "genres": ["/tags/OL170T"], "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:32:55.165173"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-01T10:24:51.111536"}}