Largo Pétalo de Mar / a Long Petal of the Sea (Paperback)

from MaggieFlo

This is a historical fiction account of two people who flee the carnage of the Spanish Civil War and board a ship called The SS Winnipeg as refugees heading to Chile. The main character is Victor Dalmau, a medic and his pregnant sister-in-law Roser, a pianist. They are among those chosen by Pablo...

from browner56

A Long Petal of the Sea is certainly an ambitious book. In it, author Isabel Allende sets out to do nothing less than tell the real-life history of the cathartic political revolutions in two different countries—Spain and Chile—lying half a world apart. Linking these conflicts is the very personal...

from mplantenga11

I enjoyed this story a lot. I'm typically one that has to have a very clear plot line to follow, which this one didn't necessarily have. This story simply followed our protagonist, Victor, through his life and his suffering of both the Spanish Civil War and the Chilean coup d'etat. I didn't know ...

from tangledthread

This is a family saga of Victor Dalmau and Roser Bruegera Dalmau whose lives are repeatedly upended by war and political unrest beginning with the Spanish Civil War, seeking refuge in Chile while WWII rages in Europe, then through the political unrest during the coup against Salvador Allende and ...

from PaperDollLady

Wonderful opening to this historical story, with much about the plight of refugees to survive and escape the oppression of Spain's Civil War and Franco's dictarorship. For the first 2/3rds of this book I was extremely invested in the story's main characters. Then, for a few chapters before the la...