Book Description     One of the most acclaimed novelists of our time, Isabel Allende turns her incomparable storytelling abilities to the glorious re-imagining of the origins of a maginficent champion.          A child of two worlds - the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man-turned-landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman - young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late eighteenth-century southern California. And so a great hero is born - skilled in athleticism and dazzling swordplay, his persona formed between the Old World and the New - the legend known as...Zorro.          "Allende shows she can swashbuckle with the best of them."     -------Mail on Sunday          "Absolutely irresistible...Beautiful and disturbing and profound, and anyone who tells you it isn't is clearly immune to whatever part of the normal human being thrills to feats of derring-do."     --------The Guardian          Book Dimension     length: (cm)17.1 width:(cm)10.4