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A Long Petal of the Sea
First published 2019
Barcelona, 1938. Doctor Victor Dalmau and pianist Roser Bruguera survive the collapse of Republican Spain and enter the refugee camps of France. A marriage of necessity allows them to join the Winnipeg, the ship organised by Pablo Neruda to carry Spanish refugees to Chile.
Their new life stretches across decades of work, family and political change. Chile offers belonging without erasing exile, but the 1973 coup forces another confrontation with repression and displacement. The novel connects the Spanish Civil War, refugee migration and the Pinochet dictatorship through a relationship that gradually becomes a chosen home.
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