The Wind Knows My Name

Vienna, 1938. Soon after the Night of Broken Glass, six-year-old violinist Samuel Adler leaves the country—his mother, having lost her husband and fearing for her child, sends her son with other Jewish children to a somewhat relative safety in England. He will never see his family again. All that remains for the fragile and desperate Samuel is music, in which the boy hides from loneliness and unquenchable sorrow. Also, a Quaker family that takes him under their wing.
Arizona, 2019. Seven-year-old Anita Diaz and her mother flee from El Salvador, and after crossing the border into the United States, they are separated. Whether they will see each other again is a big question. All that remains for the blind and confused Anita is the imaginary country of Asabaar, where the girl hides from loneliness and a cruel, incomprehensible world. Also, the support of an ambitious lawyer and a passionate social worker who take on the task of finding Anita's missing mother.
These events and these children are separated by eight decades. Two people search for family and home. Both are nearly devoid of hope. However, life will bring Samuel and Anita together and give them a second chance because there will be people nearby who care.
Isabel Allende is a superstar of Latin American literature alongside Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the most famous women in South America, a recipient of numerous awards; her books have been translated into dozens of languages, and their total circulation is steadily approaching one hundred million copies. Her latest novel 'The Wind Knows My Name' is a story inspired by true events: a blind girl from El Salvador, who was separated from her mother upon entering the U.S., became a ward of the Isabel Allende Foundation, which helps women and children. This story is real and universal: thoughtless cruelty has separated families for centuries, wounded children, killed adults, deprived people of their last hope, and for centuries, there have been people willing to help, who do not turn away and are not afraid.