Victor, who had become a prominent physician, was friendly with Salvador Allende, the Marxist politician elected as Chile’s president and forced out in a U.S. Joining Victor in a new life was Roser, a pianist with deep ties to his family and then his wife in name only.Įnsuing years leave Victor and Roser pursuing private lives and relationships until the political forces re-emerge as predominant. Chile is where Barcelona native Victor fled as a refugee from the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 after Francoist forces defeated the Republican army in which Victor had been a medical aide. The “long petal” is an English translation of poet Pablo Neruda’s description of his native Chile if you don’t quite grasp the metaphor, a glimpse at a map of South America with national boundaries will clear it up immediately.
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