In Santiago, the Dalmaus find many Chileans sympathetic to the Spaniards, while others make them unwelcome. After surviving separate and terrible circumstances that leave them refugees in France, where authorities treat them with contempt and worse, the two marry for practical reasons in order to join Pablo Neruda’s mission transporting over 2000 Spanish exiles to Chile aboard the S.S. Guillem is killed fighting against the Fascists, news that Victor can’t bear to tell Roser initially. The story follows them over nearly sixty years, beginning with the tumult of the Spanish Civil War. The scope spans most of the lives of Victor Dalmau, a Republican army medic in 1936 Spain, and Roser Bruguera, a music student taken in by Victor’s family and, later, his brother Guillem’s lover and the mother of Guillem’s child. Written by Isabel Allende Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson (trans.)Īllende’s fluidly written saga conveys her deep familiarity with the events she depicts, and her intent to illustrate their human impact in a moving way.
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