![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then by the 25% mark, we’re out of Spain and it leaves me sad, because I wanted to know more about that period and place. This is an event that’s very difficult to find in quality historical fiction and literary fiction, at least in English, and I was excited when I saw this book was based on it. My one disappointment is that we don’t learn more about the Spanish Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. If this was the first book by this author that I had ever read, I would give it five stars, and so that is what I’ve done. I confess I didn’t enjoy it as much as I often enjoy Allende’s work, but I also believe it’s unfair to judge an author solely by what they have already written. If you’re in search of a beach read, this isn’t it. It’s a well written story, though it is also the sort of literary fiction that takes a fair amount of stamina. There are at least three generations here, but primarily the story is Roser’s. There are a lot of characters to keep track of, with different threads for each that separate, then braid together again and so on. ![]() In A Long Petal of the Sea, she takes on a particularly ambitious task, creating a fictional family and charting its course from Spain following the failure of the Spanish Revolution, to Chile, to other points in Latin America, and then back to Spain once more. My thanks go to Net Galley and Random House Ballantine for the review copy. ![]()
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