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“A Long Petal of the Sea: The Sunday Times Bestseller” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. 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. ‘A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging’ Independent Online ‘A defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us’ Daily Telegraph ‘Allende’s style is impressively Olympian and the payoff is remarkable’ Guardian

Brief Summary A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

A Long Petal of the Sea is reminiscent of her Of Love and Shadows. Entwining the lives of people and the world they are caught up in, Allende once again gives us a feel for the times her characters lived in and the challenges they faced as they struggled to survive. Some reviewers have criticized her “leftist” ideology. Well, then, don’t read her! She is not overtly leftist but has lived in regimes where the alternative has been murderous right-wing dictatorships. If you want to know about Chile during the Pinochet regime, read Allende. If you want to understand the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, read Allende. Yes, the Chilean left and the Spanish Republican movements contained Communists in their midst as much as the Spanish Nationalists and Chilean right contained fascists. This is history. Read her novels to understand what life was like in those periods. Read them for the tremendous value of life stories and heartbreaking struggles and, always, the power of memory. To decided the novels are somehow anti-democratic is a serious flaw of the reader.