A Long Petal of the Sea (Spanish: Largo pétalo de mar) is a 2019 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.

[1] The novel was issued in 2019 in Spanish as Largo pétalo de mar, and was translated into English by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.

[5] During the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, Victor Dalmau has left his medical studies to help the Republicans against the Fascist forces of General Franco.

Victor seeks the help of his Basque friend, Aitor Ibarra, to send his mother Carme and Guillem's wife, Roser, to France during La Retirada, as the victory of Franco's forces is becoming more and more certain.

Carme, believing she will burden her family's future prospects in France, disappears before leaving Spain.

They hear that Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, is going to take a certain number of Spanish refugees to Chile.