ISABEL ALLENDE'S
A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA TO BE ADAPTED
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Aitor Gabilondo will be the showrunner
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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.
What happened with the promised adaptation of "House of Spirits"? Wasn't Hulu involved?
ReplyDeletePrime Video, I announced the cast back in July, it is currently shooting in Chile.
DeleteMissed this book, but seems to be the story of my life these days. Going to add it to my online library queue to see if this is a series I'll be interested in or not.
ReplyDeleteYou sailed to exile in Chile?
DeleteI wish LOL. No, I never even heard of this novel in 2019. I used to be so on top of the new offerings and now I don't know anything that goes on in the world of books. Allison gave me a book today and said the author was very popular right now and I never even heard of his name before. Makes me want to cry with how out of touch I am anymore.
DeleteI do not think ya would love to live in Chile, deary, just like us they are genetically prone to dictators and similar shit.
DeleteWell, literature has generally turned into something that lacks quality and standards ever since they first set teens as mainstream with the now mostly dead YA genre and dystopia, and then the mainstream became women, and not educated or refined ones, but bored moms who read romantasy, porn novels disguised as something else and generic chicklit. with them supporting and buying crap because they have no standards the literature became trashfest, and plus Goodreads turned reading into something toxic and filled with vitriol. Basically literature was much better before the age of Internet.