‘I’ve Seen Everything.’ Author Isabel Allende on Why She Doesn’t Fear Death and the Inspiration for Her New Novel
Jan 20, 2020, 12:16 PM
The world's most popular living author in Spanish on not fearing death and the forgotten event behind her new novel
Your new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, centers on a historical event: in 1939, the poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda chartered a boat to take 2,200 Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship to Chile.