The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle - translator

Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle - translator

Category: Novel

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adults

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnachtthe night his family loses everything. As her childs safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuels mother secures a spot for him on a 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 Daz 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 Durn, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anitas mother., Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, bo