Roser is carrying the child of Guillem, Victor’s brother. He’d like to finish his training as a doctor, but as the war ends, it becomes a fight for survival, with Republicans fleeing across the border to France to avoid slaughter.Īmong the refugees is Roser, a promising musician who lived with Victor’s family. He learns so much in the harsh reality of battlefield surgery and makes a name for himself by restarting a young soldier’s heart who has been left for dead. It is mostly the story of Victor Dalmau, a medic on the Republican (Communist) side, glad he doesn’t have to fire a gun. Isabel Allende’s new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, gave me a lot more insight, I am happy to say. I certainly didn’t know quite how brutal it was. Then there was Pablo Picasso’s Guernica which I remember studying at one time. I thought I already knew about the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), thanks to all those English and American writers who went there to fight and wrote about it later.
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