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2020

Title:	A long petal of the sea : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.
Author:	Allende, Isabel, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Ballantine Books, [2020] ©2020
Description:	318 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them wants, and together are sponsored by poet Pablo Neruda to embark on the SS Winnipeg along with 2,200 other refugees in search of a new life. As unlikely partners, they embrace exile and emigrate to Chile as the rest of Europe erupts in World War. Starting over on a new continent, their trials are just beginning. Over the course of their lives, they will face test after test. But they will also find joy as they wait patiently for a day when they are exiles no more, and will find friends in the most unlikely of places. Through it all, it is that hope of being reunited with their home that keeps them going. And in the end, they will find that home might have been closer than they thought all along"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Exiles -- Chile -- 20th century -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Married people -- Fiction. Physicians -- Fiction. Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction.
Genre:	Historical fiction.
Other Author:	Caistor, Nick, translator. Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948- translator.
Other Title:	Largo pétalo de mar. English
Notes:	"Originally published in Spain in 2019 as Largo pétalo de mar"--Title page verso.
ISBN:	9781984820150 9780593157497
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Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Paula, and In the Midst of Winter. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. She lives in California. - (Random House, Inc.)

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