A Long Petal of the Sea by Allende, Isabel

Author: Allende, Isabel

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 March 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
198 x 130 x 20 | 234g

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’A powerful love story spanning generations Full of ambition and humanity’ – Sunday Times’One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende’s long career’ – New York Times Book ReviewOn 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 poe