ALong Petal of the Sea

Isabel Allende is one of the most widely read authors in the world. Her books have sold over 74 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 42 languages.Inspired by real people, A Long Petal of the Sea will be backed by a huge worldwide launch and publicity campaign focusing on Allende's status as a literary legend. A love letter to Chile that Allende believes is her best novel since The House of the Spirits (nearly 150,000 TCM), it is a twentieth-century Latin-American War and Peace, perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow.Allende has received more than sixty awards in over fifteen countries, including the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom (bestowed by Barack Obama) and the 2018 National Book Award's Lifetime Achievement Award.Many of Allende's novels have been adapted for TV and film, including for two international films. Her landmark first novel, The House of the Spirits, is currently being developed for a major TV series by Hulu.Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of twenty-four bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune and City of the Beasts. A Chilean immigrant herself, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes and in 1996 founded the Isabel Allende Foundation. She lives in California. isabelallende.comSeptember 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 Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises, they take it, boarding a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow' over the seas. 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 about hope, exile and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.Sometimes, the difficult thing is not to flee but to return. A love letter to Chile that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, and a stunning return to great storytelling heights, A Long Petal of the Sea is the much-awaited new novel from literary legend Isabel Allende.Allende has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the heart, the all-encompassing humanityIsabel Allende is a grand storyteller who writes with surpassing compassion and insight. Her place as an icon of world literature was secured long ago. She will be celebrated, by readers and writers alike, for generations to comeAllende marries the fictional and the historical in lush, sprawling epics. A Long Petal of the Sea takes its place in the unparalleled canon she has created, exploring the sacrifices we make for the sake of those we love, and the love we sacrifice for the sake of our familiesThis is 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. She knows that all stories are love stories, and the greatest love stories are told by timeBoth an intimate look at the relationship between one man and one woman and an epic story of love, war, family and the search for home, this gorgeous novel, like all the best novels, transports the reader to another time and place, and also sheds light on the way we live now. Isabel Allende is a legend and this might be her finest book yetIf Allende's life depended on her narrative gifts, she'd not only survive, but reignAllende's stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry