However, she insists, “It is not my intention to preach.
The story of The Winnipeg refugees is a “sort of happy ending”, she says, given how well they were received in Chile and how the refugees “contributed immensely to the culture”.
And because I have experienced both situations, being an immigrant and being a refugee, I can understand the feelings.” Recurrence of history “It’s something that is in the air, everybody’s talking about it. In recent times of cages and walls and the insistent “othering” of migrants, Allende felt compelled to finally write this story, one that was told to her by a fellow exile in Venezuela 40 years ago, who himself had travelled on The Winnipeg. A young couple flee the Spanish Civil War to Chile Her latest novel, The Long Petal of the Sea, is built on a recurring theme in Allende's work: the displacement of people. Over and again, fascistic forces upend their lives, making their homes impermanent and leaving their families without footing. A young couple flee the Spanish Civil War to Chile on The Winnipeg, a boat for refugees chartered by the Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda, only to then find themselves at the mercy of the Pinochet dictatorship. Her latest novel, The Long Petal of the Sea, is built on a recurring theme in Allende’s work: the displacement of people. She has now written more than 20 books and, in 2014, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Following the bloody Pinochet coup of 1973 that overthrew her second cousin, Salvador Allende, the first elected socialist president of South America, Isabel took great risks to arrange passage out of the country for fellow Chileans before she herself was forced to flee. At 77, she is as prolific as ever – but her journey to success was not without difficulty.
Allende has little time for such nonsense she is busy writing her next book.
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