Allende, Isabel. Island beneath the Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Allende, Isabel. Island Beneath the Sea. Harper: HarperCollins. May 2010. c.464p. ISBN 978-0-06-198824-0. $26.99. F

Zariete, known as Tete, is born a slave in Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue, in 1700. She is bought by Toulouse Valmorain, a young Frenchman whose ideals quickly disappear in the brutality of life on a sugar plantation. Tete tenderly cares for Valmorain's son and, since she is her master's property, bears two of the master's children herself. She helps Valmorain and the children escape just as the bloody violence of the …