The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

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The Wind Knows My Name

  • By: Isabel Allende
  • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Maria Liatis
  • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
  • Categories: Literature & Fiction

Publisher's Summary

THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE 

No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. 

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht — the night their family loses everything. As her child’s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.    

Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother.    

Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers — and never stop dreaming.

©2023 Isabel Allende (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Customer Reviews

1-5 of 2 reviews

  • Anonymous User

    Thought provoking and powerful

    I really enjoy the way Isabel Allende brings her characters to life and always has a wonderful way of telling a story. This one touched me.

    July 21, 2023
  • Angela Cochrane

    Enticing

    A lovely read, couldn’t put it down, shine a lens on the injustice of refugees and human trafficking

    July 21, 2023

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