by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401022418
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«Largo pétalo de mar» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (384 pages, in Spanish).
During the Spanish Civil War, doctor Víctor Dalmau and pianist Roser Bruguera flee Barcelona and cross the Pyrenees to France. They board the Winnipeg, the ship chartered by Pablo Neruda that carried more than two thousand Spaniards to Valparaíso, and integrate into Chile until the coup against Salvador Allende.
Published in 2019, it belongs to the Éxitos collection by Plaza & Janés. It was nominated for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards in the historical fiction category.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction interested in the Republican exile and the history of Chile during the 20th century.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
