A life between two pandemics, beginning with the Spanish flu and ending with the coronavirus. In letters dripping with sweetness and pulsating with life, Violeta recounts her passionate story over the course of a century, passing through the various phases of her long life. We see her as a pampered child in a wealthy family whose finances were strained by the Great Depression; a dreamy young woman in the picturesque Chilean countryside; a passionate woman making her way in a man's world; a mother tormented by the fate of her son and daughter; and finally, a grandmother filled with a greater enthusiasm for life than ever. All this within a historical framework full of momentous events that shaped our world as we know it today. Isabel Allende returns to the epic novel, with a graceful pen and a captivating style in which reality blends with fantasy, presenting us with a novel inspired by the present and the past, in which the reader distinguishes echoes of Paula and the taste of the House of the Spirits.