![]() ![]() Food and almost everything else was scarce - people survived with little they lived in fear. Q: What was civilian life like in Barcelona, Spain, during the Civil War where Roser and Victor lived?Ī: Life was very hard, as is always the case in times of war. Roser Bruguera is Victor’s brother’s pregnant widow, who eventually traveled with him to Chile on the Winnipeg. At the end of the war, when half a million people escaped for fear of General Francisco Franco’s brutal repression, he accompanied the wounded and ended up in a concentration camp in France. He inspired the character of Victor Dalmau, a young paramedic who spent three years of the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939) in the battlefields. ![]() I heard the story that inspired “A Long Petal of the Sea” 40 years ago from Victor Pey, one of the passengers on the ship Winnipeg. First, because the plight of refugees is a global crisis, then, because I have a foundation that works closely with asylum seekers in the U.S.-Mexico border and last, because of my personal experience. My last three books deal with refugees and immigrants. ![]()
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