A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translator), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)

A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translator), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the

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