Isabel Allende is an outstanding Latin American writer, niece of the tragically deceased President of Chile Salvador Allende. From her first novels, The House of the Spirits and Love and Darkness, to books such as Eva Luna, Tales of Eva Luna, Fortune's Daughter, and A Portrait in Brown, literary critics have hailed her as superstar of Latin American magical realism, heir to Gabriel García Márquez. The total circulation of her books has already exceeded 60 million copies; Isabel Allende's novels have been translated into three dozen languages. In 2004, she was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. One of the most famous women in Latin America, she communicates on equal terms with presidents and members of royal houses, with the Dalai Lama, superstars and Nobel laureates. For the first time in Russian, the novel “An Island in the Depths of the Sea” is published. This is a story about the fate of a beautiful mulatto woman named Zarite. She has honey-colored eyes, dark skin and a head of curly hair. Her life story merges with the larger story, because Zarite is a slave and the daughter of slaves from the island of San Domingo, the richest colony in the world. In this beautiful historical novel, love, hatred, a frantic thirst for freedom, blood, and the struggle for human dignity are combined into a hymn that celebrates the joy of being.