Summary
Isabel Allende: Long Petal in the Sea
At the end of the thirties of the 20th century, civil war breaks out in Spain. When Franco's fascists overthrow the government, hundreds of thousands of people make a dangerous escape across the Pyrenees and the French border. The pregnant young widow Roser will connect with the military doctor Víctor Dalmau, the brother of her late love. They have to get married in order to survive, although neither of them wants to get married. With another two thousand refugees, they will board the steamship Winnipeg, which was hired by the poet Pablo Neruda, and set off for Chile, "a long petal of sea, wine and snow". While a world war breaks out in Europe, they accept exile and a series of difficult challenges on a distant foreign continent, but they also find joy in the persistent hope of returning to Spain. Steadfast Roser and Víctor, witnesses of the struggle between freedom and repression that has engulfed the entire world, will eventually realize that their true home is much closer than they thought. In the peak of her creative power, Isabel Allende wrote a magnificent historical novel about hope, exile and true belonging.
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