![]() ![]() They closed beaches with barbed wire and just dumped people there. They placed them in improvised concentration camps. And France didn't know what to do with them. And when the fascist armies of Franco were surrounding Barcelona, half a million people walked to their border with France, asking for asylum. Why did you want to start there?ĪLLENDE: Well, because this is the story of the 2,200 refugees - Spanish refugees - that went to Chile. This novel starts in Spain, nearing the end of the Spanish Civil War on the side of the losing Republicans. ![]() It is my great pleasure to welcome the world's best-selling Spanish-language author, Isabel Allende. The story is a personal one for Allende, mirroring her own experience of fleeing her country, Chile, after the overthrow of her relative Salvador Allende. What follows is an epic tale of exile, loss, resilience and love. ![]() So much blood ran that the following year, the peasants swore that when they pulled up their onions, they were red and that they had found human teeth in their potatoes, she writes. Isabel Allende's new novel, "A Long Petal Of The Sea," begins in the horror of war in Europe. ![]()
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