" title="LB Reads One Book" width="200" height="306" class="size-full wp-image-13653" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LB-Reads-One-Book1.jpg?w=200&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LB-Reads-One-Book1.jpg?resize=196%2C300&ssl=1 196w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />The novel, which chronicles Zorro’s childhood and adolescence, begins as the young Diego de la Vega and his Native-American “brother” Bernardo grow up in the 1790s in Alta California during a time when the Spanish colonial government, the missionaries and the various Native-American populations in California are struggling to live together peacefully.
“Isabel Allende’s Zorro is a fast-moving, historical, romantic and dramatic novel, and we encourage everyone to begin reading now so they will be ready for all the amazing activities that will take place in March,” said Susan Redfield, chair of Long Beach Reads One Book.
Of the more than 30 Zorro events in March will be “An Evening with Isabel Allende” on March 22 at the Terrace Theater. Allende will be interviewed by Sandra Curtis, Ph.D., author of Zorro Unmasked, and speak of her experiences researching and writing Zorro.
The Long Beach Reads One Book celebration will also feature a variety of lectures, discussions, movies, TV originals, and activities for children and adults at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens, and Long Beach public libraries. Information on the 11th annual Long Beach Reads One Books events can be found at www.lbplfoundation.org/zorro.
Long Beach Reads One Book, one of the Long Beach Public Library Foundation’s initiatives, brings diverse people together through the unifying joy of literacy, by encouraging everyone in Long Beach to read the same book at the same time.
Allende, born in Lima Peru in 1942 and raised in Chile, worked in Venezuela and other areas of the Americas, before moving to California. She has written 19 books, which have been translated into 35 languages with more than 57 million copies sold. Zorro was published in 2005.
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