He was much older than me but still very attractive. He had been one of the passengers of the Winnipeg. I was living in exile in Venezuela, and I met a guy who was charming. Isabel Allende: I think the moment when I heard the story for the first time was 40 years ago. From what you’ve told me, I’m wondering whether that moment was when your stepfather told you about greeting people from the Winnipeg? The following excerpts are from this conversation.Īdam Hochschild: Sometimes, when I read a book that moves me, I try to imagine the moment when it began, the moment when there was a pebble tossed in the pond and the ripples went outward. In the last event that the Center for Latin American Studies hosted publicly prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Isabel Allende spoke with Adam Hochschild about her book and the legacy of the Spanish Civil War in Latin America and around the world. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. Isabel Allende’s latest book, A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine Books, 2020), follows a pregnant young widow whose life becomes intertwined with an army doctor who is her deceased love’s brother. In the late 1930s, Spain’s civil war compelled thousands of refugees to flee their homes in search of a safer life.
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