He also falls madly in love and makes an enemy for life in the person of Rafael Moncada, his rival for the hand of the beautiful Juliana de Romeu, daughter of his Barcelona patron.įrom that point on, his adventures rise to new heights. There, in the midst of the struggle between the Napoleonic occupiers and Spanish resistance fighters, de la Vega learns a great deal about politics, war and love, becomes initiated into a secret Spanish society dedicated to the rights of the underdog and transforms himself into Zorro, the sword-wielding, whip-slashing Fox, and leads some successful forays against the forces of reaction. When he turns 16, his father ships him off to Barcelona for an Old World education. Son of a Spanish father and Shoshone Indian mother, de la Vega grows up on the Spanish mission in Monterrey and becomes steeped in the lore both of old California and okahue honor, justice, respect, dignity and courage, the positive values of the indigenous peoples. The narrator of Isabel Allende's novel fills us in on the birth and early life of Diego de la Vega, later in life known as El Zorro, or the Fox. It brings to life the legendary romantic hero known as Zorro. The latest work of fiction by Isabel Allende takes us back into early 19th-century California and Spain.
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