Allende is one of my favorite authors so when her new book came out I quickly read it. This is the story of the Spanish who, after fighting the Civil War in Spain on the Republican side, were forced to leave their country. With the help of poet Pablo Neruda, Victor Dalmau, a medic in the war, marries Roser, his late brother's pregnant widow, to gain a place on board the ship leaving for Chile. There they, along with other exiles, make a new life for themselves. Their lives become entwined with established Chilean families as Victor becomes a respected doctor and Roser makes a career of her music. Years later the CIA led coup that unseated and murdered Victor's friend, President Salvador Allende, Victor and Roser once again find themselves in exile, this time in Argentina. Eventually they return to the adopted land they came to love. This epic tale covers nearly six decades of the lives and loves of Victor, Roser, and the rest of their family. In a fairly short novel, Allende packs a lot of detail without overdoing it.
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