Zoro: The Beginning of a Legend

Author: Isabel Allende
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Adventurous, passionate, fearless, playful. This is the legend of Zorro. This is a historical account of a special life in a special era, written with a sharp pen and delicate irony. This is the life of Diego del Vega, whose mask has been removed. The narrative begins in Upper California in 1790. At that time, a young Spanish officer fell in love with an Indian woman with a rebellious spirit. "Zorro" is a portrayal of flesh-and-blood, moral, and flawed, sensitive and decisive characters, who draw us into their adventures in a turbulent era. With her usual masterful skill, Isabel Allende reveals to us the simple life in the Spanish mission in California at the beginning of the 19th century, the turmoil in the streets of Barcelona occupied by Napoleon's army during the Spanish War of Independence. The initiation ceremony of indigenous tribes, the mysterious rituals required to join a European secret society. An adventure as thrilling as any of the past.