For Adults
Bloomsbury is delighted to offer 5 reading groups a set of 10 read and review copies of Isabel Allende’s Sunday Times bestselling novel, A Long Petal of the Sea. Read on to find out more about this ‘masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging’, and how to take part!
About the book
‘One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende’s long career’ New York Times Book Review
‘Allende knows that all stories are love stories, and the greatest love stories are told by time’ Colum McCann
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.
How to take part
To win 10 paperback copies of A Long Petal of the Sea in exchange of online book reviews, please log in and complete the short survey below by 16 February 2021.
