A Long Petal of the Sea

The Sunday Times bestseller 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, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. 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. 'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' New York Times Book Review ' An epic that starts in 1939 and spans decades and continents . . . A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, and one that sheds light on the way we live now' Independent.co.uk 'Full of ambition and humanity' Sunday Times 'Allende's style is impressively Olympian and the payoff is remarkable' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Allende, Allende Isabel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781526627605
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-2760-5
• No. of pages: 351
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 178 mm x 22 mm
• Series: High/Low
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chile, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Sagas, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, TRAVEL / South America / Chile & Easter Island, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern warfare, Specific wars and campaigns, Spanish Civil War, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Civil wars, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary