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murielm99

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4. A Long Petal of the Sea

Sun Aug 23, 2020, 01:12 PM

Aug 2020

I read The Book of Longings a short while ago. I was not sure I would like it, but I did like it! Very much.

I am reading A Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende. It is about exiles from the Spanish Civil War who go to Chile on a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda. This part is fact.

A Long Petal of the Sea is the poet Neruda's description of Chile.

Allende's writing is so wonderful that it seems ethereal. My daughter who translates Spanish and speaks it fluently, reminds me that the wonderful translators of this work deserve great respect. She wishes that she had their reputation.

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