_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A
powerful love story spanning generations. Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times 'One of
the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York Times Book Review
_______________ On September 3 1939 the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile
the Second World War broke out in Europe. 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 the pianist Roser he is forced out of his
beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge arises they board a ship
chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and
snow'. 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
that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet A Long Petal of the Sea
is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers. _______________ '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 'A grand storyteller who writes with surpassing
compassion and insight. Her place as an icon of world literature was secured long ago' - Khaled
Hosseini 'A novel not just for those of us who have been Allende fans for decades but also for
those who are brand new to her work: what a joy it must be to come upon Allende for the first
time' - Colum McCann 'Allende's style is impressively Olympian and the payoff is remarkable' -
Guardian 'Epic in scope yet intimate in execution' - i
