![]() ![]() ![]() We also meet a young girl called Roser, an ex-goat herder and music student, and these two will be at the centre of the book Historical Fiction Before, you have the Spanish Civil war, which is where we meet Victor, a doctor tending the Republican wounded (the book opens with the most incredibly imagery of him massaging a heart). The journey of the Winnipeg is at the heart of ‘a long petal of the sea’ by Isabel Allende, acting as a before and after. They had also just avoided WW2, which had just broken out. They had been living in desperate conditions in camps in France and Neruda had arranged for them to escape to Chile, the place he described as ‘a long petal of the sea and wine and snow’ where they landed in the port of Valparíso on September the third, 1939. The ‘poem’ to which the poet Pablo Neruda refers is the French steamer ‘The Winnipeg’ which he chartered to transport 2,200 refugees who had escaped from Franco and the Spanish civil war. The critics may erase all of my poetry but this poem that I today remember, nobody will be able to erase. ![]()
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