But it's not a story beholden to any era. Marcela Davison Avilés of NPR admires the "gifted stories" of Allende, noting that " A Long Petal of the Sea is a love story for these times. On the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 20 reviews: 8 "Rave" reviews, 8 "Positive" reviews, 3 "Mixed" reviews, and 1 "Pan" review. They embark on this journey, but migration to the new country is not the end of their problem, and there again they are forced to witness the fight between freedom and repression, which seems to be a neverending war.
Desperate to grab the chance, Victor and Roser get married reluctantly to qualify for the journey. After many trials, he reunites with Roser in France, and they hear that Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, is going to take a certain number of Spanish refugees to Chile. Victor has to seek the help of his Basque friend, Aitor Ibarra, to send his mother and Guillem's wife, Roser, to France, as the victory of Franco's forces is becoming more and more certain. His brother, Guillem, is also a Republican soldier, but he dies in the Battle of Ebro. The story opens during the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona where the protagonist, Victor Dalmau, has left his medical studies to help the Republicans against the Fascist forces of General Franco. A Long Petal of the Sea became the most popular book in Spain between April 2019 and April 2020. Based on a real story, it is set partly during the Spanish Civil War and partly in Chile where the protagonists again witness the fight between freedom and repression.
The novel was issued in 2019 in Spanish as Largo pétalo de mar, and was translated into English by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. Originally published in Spain by Plaza & Janés, it was first published in the United States by Vintage Espanol. A Long Petal of the Sea ( Spanish: Largo pétalo de mar) is a 2019 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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