![]() As Lluis Dalmau lay dying, he tells Victor that they have lost the war and tells him to go to France until things calm down. ![]() Victor’s father, Professor Marcel Lluis Dalmau, is a music teacher and his mother, Carme, a chain smoking teacher. ![]() She is not interested, but both Aitor and Elisabeth become very important in Victor’s future. While in the army, Victor falls madly in love with Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a Swiss volunteer for the Association to Aid Children in War. At one point during the war Victor revives a dying soldier in a most heroic and unusual way. ![]() Victor’s team includes a driver by the name of Aitor Ibarra. In December 1937, he is assigned to an ambulance team responsible for giving first aid. Victor had been a medical student before he joined and while in the army worked recovering the wounded. ![]() Victor Dalmau joins the Republican Army in Spain in 1936, fighting Franco and his nationalist forces. The novel describes human cruelty, strength and perseverance through a compelling and emotional form of storytelling that is quintessential Isabel Allende. “A Long Petal Of The Sea” is a moving, brilliantly conceived historical novel that follows the lives of Victor Dalmau and his wife, Roser, through the Spanish Civil War, the Chilean coup and beyond. ![]()
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