Zorro Returns in Isabel Allende Novel
Posted on April 21, 2005
Author Isabel Allende is bringing back the Zorro character in a retelling of the sword-weilding hero. Allende's novel Zorro, which hits bookshelves on May 3rd, is already receiving great reviews.
The novel received a starred review from Booklist: "In her latest historical novel, she imaginatively creates, in the words of the narrator, 'the origins of the legend' -- the legend being none other than Zorro, the famous Robin Hood of eighteenth-century colonial California. The novel's conceit is that the testimony offered here is a bird's-eye view of the provenance of Zorro as recorded by someone who knew him well, but the identity of that person is not revealed until the novel's end."
Entertainment Weekly, which calls this a female-friendly Zorro, gives the book at B+.
