5/26/2023 0 Comments Summary of a long petal of the sea![]() He became an advisor to Salvador Allende’s popular front government. One of her major sources for this novel was Victor Pey, (1915-2018) an engineer who came from Spain as a refugee to Chile in 1939. Isabel Allende, who now lives in California, spent her youth in Chile. Her latest, A Long Petal of the Sea is an historical novel, a tour de force which takes readers through two struggles for democracy and social equality: that of the popular front government elected in Spain in 1931, and that of the Salvador Allende administration in Chile, 1970-73. In the almost forty years since, she has written twenty-four books which have become international best sellers. ![]() Isabel Allende’s first novel, House of the Spirits, was published in 1982 and won critical and popular acclaim. Translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson ![]()
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