ISABEL ALLENDE'S A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA TO GET A TV ADAPTATION

   ISABEL ALLENDE'S  

A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA TO BE ADAPTED

Aitor Gabilondo will be the showrunner

According to Variety, Chile’s Fabula and Spain’s Alea Media have unveiled they will turn A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA 2019 novel by Isabel Allende into a TV series. It will be her latest novel  to be adapted after “The House of the Spirits,” “Of Love and Shadows” and “Inés of My Soul”. The story begins in the Spanish Civil War when a young doctor, Victor Dalmau, together with his friend, pianist Roser Bruguera, flee Barcelona. They end up sailing to exile in Chile on the Winnipeg, a ship chartered by larger-than-life poet Pablo Neruda which carries 2,000 Spaniards to Valparaíso. Doing so the two embark on a journey in search of the peace and freedom they lacked in their homeland. The title of the novel itself was taken from Neruda.