Long Petal of the Sea

The captivating new novel by Isabel Allende. During the Spanish Civil War, young doctor Víctor Dalmau and his pianist friend Roser Bruguera are forced to flee Barcelona, go into exile, and cross the Pyrenees towards France. Aboard the Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda that carried over two thousand Spaniards to Valparaíso, they will embark in search of the peace and freedom they did not have in their own country. Received as heroes in Chile - that "long petal of sea and snow," in the words of the Chilean poet - they will integrate into the social life of the country for several decades until the coup d'état that overthrew Doctor Salvador Allende, Víctor's friend due to their shared passion for chess. Víctor and Roser will find themselves uprooted once again, but as the author says: "if one lives long enough, all circles close." A journey through the history of the 20th century alongside unforgettable characters who will discover that in a single life there can be many lives and that, sometimes, the difficult part is not fleeing but returning.

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