Aissa

Sun-burnished, unforgiving island of Lanzarote was home to many generations of desperate sailors of the Perdomo family—until Iza was born, endowed with the gift of taming animals, summoning fish, soothing pain, and comforting the dead. Her mysterious power became a blessing for the island’s inhabitants, and her striking beauty became a curse.

Saving Iza’s honor, her brother kills the son of the island’s most influential man. Blinded by grief, the father thirsts for blood, and the Perdomo family escapes. They will have to cross the ocean and find a new homeland in Venezuela, in the endless plains of llanos.

But Iza is still haunted by bad fate: because of her, people die again, and the family is forced to flee once more.

“Iza” is another book in the “Ocean” cycle—unpredictable and enthralling, like the sea itself. The story of the Perdomo family, told by one of the most popular Spanish-language authors in the world, has already captured the hearts of millions. Now the storm-washed world of Alberto Vásquez-Figueroa opens up for the Russian reader as well.