She currently resides in California with her husband. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together.
Allende, who writes in the “magic realism” tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel AllendeĪbout the author: Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. It’s not great as romance and the characters are dry and not relatable, at least for me. I think the story can be interesting for a historian or someone who would want to get a feel or an interpretation of the life in exile, in French concentration camps, the terror of war. They flee the country and end up in a long petal of the sea – Chile – on board of the ship Winnipeg. His brother died in the Spanish civil war. He, Victor Dalmau, an army doctor, marries her as she was pregnant with his brother’s son. Roser is lovely for much of the book, but by the end I wasn’t so keen. This novel was supposed to be about two young people, but it drag on too much, decades, without adding much to the story. I was surprised by this, as Allende is a New York Times bestselling author. At one point a love triangle developed into a love “square” or even a love “pentagon”… too much to be interesting.
The concentration camps in France were real, but I don’t know about the Chilean history, so I can’t comment on that.īut, the problem was with the romance, it was so dry and boring. The historical parts are nicely presented, even though I’m not sure how accurate they are. Luckily (or not) I could find it at the library. Seeing that it’s connected with the Spanish Civil War, I was curious about it. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende was published this year and it was picked for the Goodreads Choice Awards.
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