Book Club

"A Long Petal of the Sea" By Isabel Allende

On September 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. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved

Barcelona and into exile. 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’.

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. A 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.

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