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Title: A Long Petal of the SeaAuthor: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (translator), Amanda Hopkinson (translator)
Published: 2019
Language: English (translated from Spanish)
Pages: 336
Rating: 5/5
Summary:
In the late 1930's, civil war grips Spain and a young widow and her brother in law flee the country along with hundreds of thousands of others.
Review:
This was an excellent book and I loved it.
From the first chapter, I was hooked on this; I loved meeting the characters and getting to know them and I felt like they were so well written and interesting and they felt like real people. Seeing them on their journeys was heart-wrenching, heartwarming and I was sad to let them go when I finished this book.
I think the historical aspects of this book are also excellent and I felt like we got such a good sense of what it was like for these people to move from one place to the next and try to grapple with where you're from and where your home is. The book really transports you back in time and to these different places, it almost feels like you're walking among them.
I really enjoyed the writing in here as well, it's easy to read but has some really beautiful parts and I especially loved the bit of poetry we get in here and the appearance of Pablo Neruda, I thought that was really interesting.
Overall, I thought this was an excellent story exploring love, family and all that war does to people, and it's one of my favorite books I've read this year and one of the best historical fiction novels I think I've ever read. Would absolutely recommend.
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