A Long Petal of the Sea
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Narrated by:
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Written by:
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Isabel Allende
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, read by Edoardo Ballerini.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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'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
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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.
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'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
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- santooshvenkatram
- 03-06-20
A wonderful love story
A love story between two people who got into marriage as a survival to withstand from war and how their life turns as war refugees. Their passion towards their dream and how they fall in love with eat other.
Wonderfully written and narrated.
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- KSri
- 21-01-21
A fabulous historical fiction
Loved it and the prose is exquisite. I struggled a bit with the narrator's accent initially but grew to like it too eventually.
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- B H.
- 14-04-20
enjoyable
The narrator did a brilliant take on the story. I loved the way he brought out the characters to life. I enjoyed the story by Isabella except for the fact that it ran over a long long period of time.
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- Pritam
- 17-02-23
A great story and performance
I'll definitely be listening to more from Isabel. The narrator had a great voice.
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- Anusri Vashistha
- 20-05-20
A love letter to life and times
What an absolutely lovely book. It sneaks up on you and before you know gets under your skin. Isabelle has the power to get you invested in all her characters from the get go, and you want them to survive the tumult of life in a war trodden world. she rewards you with rich history and delicately interwoven backgrounds of her characters. the novel does become predictable at places but to be a thriller is not the goal of the writer, the goal is to take you on this wonderful journey from which you'll come out more content than you had thought possible. must read
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-20
Very good narration
This was my first time listening to Isabel Allende and I had great expectation out of the storyline but it fell flat for me but I have to admit I very much enjoyed the narrator. He’s done a splendid job.
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