In 1939, Pablo Neruda prepared the voyage of the Winnipeg, the legendary ship that sailed from France to Chile carrying two thousand Spanish refugees fleeing the oppressive Franco regime. Based on this historical event, which Neruda would remember as his “most beautiful poem,” Isabel Allende tells the gripping story of a pregnant pianist and a doctor forced to leave besieged Barcelona and dreaming of a second chance in exile.
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