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A review by rhonaea
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
5.0
A wonderful rich and satisfying read, Isabel Allende is a favourite and this sweeping historical work is one to be proud of. Starting out in pre-Civil War Barcelona, the defeated Spanish revolutionaries flee Franco over Andorra and are incarcerated in horrific conditions on Argeles Sur Mer.
Incredibly poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda intervenes to commission a refugee transport, on the brink of European war, to Chile. The migrants meet a mixed reception to carve out new lives in a Chile vacillating between Left and Right, revolution, imprisonments, unspeakable cruelty, passion and coups follow.
All of this is delicately front-faced with family, love and complex relationships. If you enjoyed The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers, The Air We Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles or Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, you will love this.
Other suggestions- well Neruda of course, Winter in Madrid, The Time in Between and Homage to Catalonia.
Incredibly poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda intervenes to commission a refugee transport, on the brink of European war, to Chile. The migrants meet a mixed reception to carve out new lives in a Chile vacillating between Left and Right, revolution, imprisonments, unspeakable cruelty, passion and coups follow.
All of this is delicately front-faced with family, love and complex relationships. If you enjoyed The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers, The Air We Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles or Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, you will love this.
Other suggestions- well Neruda of course, Winter in Madrid, The Time in Between and Homage to Catalonia.