The Wind Knows My Name

Name: The Wind Knows My Name
Rating: 4.04 (78713 reviews)

by Isabel Allende

First published 2023

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Vienna, 1938. Five-year-old Samuel Adler is separated from his parents after Kristallnacht and sent alone to Britain on a Kindertransport train. His violin and fragmented memories become the surviving links to a family destroyed by Nazi persecution.

Arizona, 2019. Seven-year-old Anita Díaz is separated from her mother after they flee danger in El Salvador and seek asylum in the United States. A social worker and lawyer attempt to reunite them. By connecting two children across eight decades, the novel examines how war, immigration policy and forced separation continue to shape memory and belonging.