Isabel Allende's novel "The Wind Knows My Name" will be released in Russia for the first time.

The last work of the Chilean writer Isabel Allende, "The Wind Knows My Name," was written in 2023. This week, the book will appear on the shelves of Russian bookstores and will be available in online libraries. Izvestia published an exclusive fragment of the novel, which describes Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Shop Windows — a key event of the Holocaust, large-scale Jewish pogroms on November 9-10, 1938 in Germany and Austria.

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The events of the novel unfold in parallel in 1938 and 2019. One of the heroes is six—year-old violinist Samuel Adler, who, after Kristallnacht, is transported to England along with other Jewish children to be rescued. According to the book's abstract, Samuel will never see his family again.

The second heroine of the novel is seven—year-old Anita Diaz from El Salvador. In 2019, she was separated from her mother in the United States after crossing the border. The girl is blind, she doesn't understand much about what is happening, but an American lawyer and a social worker undertake to help Anita find her mother.

Anastasia Mirolyubova and Boris Kovalev translated Allende's novel into Russian from Spanish, and the book is published by the ABC publishing house.