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Rent Zorro
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: May 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $14.99
Pages: 416
Synopsis
Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless. (Historical Fiction)
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Reviews
Allende is a top-flight writer. In this novel she investigates the meaning of identity. The time place and culture one is born into, how one is shaped by experience and exposure to others, and how one synthesizes all these elements to create a personal ethic, as well as a multiplicity of personas. Allende's perspective is that of a raven in a high tree observing the clash of whites and Indians, the military and the civil, religion and secularity in the early days of Baja California. The same benevolent gaze crosses the ocean to observe the struggles of the Spanish under French rule in the Napoleonic wars. She is able to shift from the minute interpersonal details to sweeping historical changes without losing her footing, demonstrating the evolution of a larger than life person.