The new novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende, “Long Petal sea”, which tells the story of a Catalan couple who was part of the more than two thousand Spanish exiles who arrived in the Andean country on board the ship chartered by Pablo Neruda 1939, available from libraries in Argentine.

To develop topics, the writer spent several months interviewing survivors of historical episode, including the recently deceased Victor Pey, Spanish entrepreneur and journalist who was an adviser to Salvador Allende, to whom the book is dedicated.

The book of 384 pages, published by Penguin Random House through its seal Square & Janes, She is played by the young doctor and her friend Victor Dalmau pianist Bruguera Roser. Proceeds from the Spanish Civil War, both are forced to leave Barcelona, exile and cross the Pyrenees, towards France. Then, from the French port of Poullac they embark in Winnipeg route to Valparaiso.

Spanish author living in the world's most widely read, which has sold more than 74 million copies in 42 Languages, became 2018 the first Latin American writer awarded the Medal of Honor of the National Book Award.