The Santa Barbara community is diving into Isabel Allende’s novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, for Santa Barbara Reads 2023. Every year, Santa Barbara Reads has encouraged the community to read, discuss, ...

This week’s book of the week is “A Long Petal of the Sea” by Isabel Allende translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. A young, pregnant widow named Roser and her deceased husband’s brother, ...

Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) is pleased to announce the selection of Isabel Allende’s award-winning historical fiction novel A Long Petal of the Sea as the featured title for Santa Barbara ...

The scope is sweeping, the characters engaging and the storytelling a model of clarity infused with a ribbon of life-affirming romance, yet Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea” was at times a ...

"A Long Petal of the Sea," a new historical novel by renowned writer Isabel Allende, draws upon events spanning from the Spanish civil war to the 1973 coup in her native Chile -- and with resonance ...

'This was to be his most stubborn, persistent memory of the war: that 15- or 16-year-old boy, still smooth-cheeked, filthy with the dirt of battle and dried blood, laid out on a stretcher with his ...

Well-known for her critically acclaimed novel “The House of the Spirits,” Isabel Allende is back with another novel spanning an impressively large geography and time. “A Long Petal of the Sea” follows ...

Isabel Allende's new novel follows two refugees from the Spanish Civil War, whose mock marriage as they flee to Chile gradually deepens into real... If there is a region which understands the current ...