Many ways to love, and many lives to live. Shows us that within just one couple’s story, there are many ways to suffer,
The book’s narrative never stops giving and the relentless, action-packed, well-crafted spirit of Allende’s writing carries through right to the closing words.
The final part explores the aftermath of these political events for the couple, their family, and the connections they have made. In the second part, exile is transformed into belonging, against a tense political backdrop in the run-up to the election of socialist president Salvador Allende (related to Isabel) and the military coup that brought about the start of Pinochet’s dictatorship. The Dalmaus face civil war, a concentration camp, a disappeared family member and an extremely straining journey while Roser is pregnant, all in only the very first part of the book. Roser and Victor Dalmau reach Chile in 1939 by travelling on the real-life ship SS Winnipeg, a ship funded by the Chilean poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda. A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, and one that sheds light on the way we live now’ .A book with a cover almost as beautiful as its content, A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende follows two Catalonian-Spanish refugees who settle in Chile, and the extraordinary lives they build there. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.Ī masterful work of historical fiction that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.’An epic that starts in 1939 and spans decades and continents. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende’s long career’ New York Times Book Review’A defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us’ Daily TelegraphSeptember 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed.
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