"En Alta California ..."

"With this document, I intend to set the record straight before the slanderers who are determined to defame Zorro have their say. Our enemies are many, as is often the case with those who defend the weak, rescue damsels in distress, and humiliate the powerful. Naturally, every idealist attracts enemies, but we prefer to count our friends, who are much greater in number..."

It took me all of 4 hours from hearing (on NPR, today) about Isabel Allende's Zorro to buying a copy. Isabel Allende! The hardest part was deciding whether I was up to reading it en español or not ...