Zorro

This biographical novel explores the early life and origins of the legendary hero Zorro, set against the backdrop of late eighteenth-century California, Spain, and the Mediterranean. Born to a Spanish landowner father and a Shoshone warrior mother, young Diego de la Vega is sent to Barcelona for a European education where he joins an underground resistance movement. Imbued with a sense of justice, he develops his fencing and stealth skills before returning to California to fight oppression. The story blends historical adventure, romance, and swashbuckling action to chronicle how the legendary masked vigilante came to be.

by Isabel Allende

Rayo · First published 2005 · 384 pages