Isabel Allende has received impressive worldwide acclaim for her novels; she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, she received Chile’s National Literature Prize in 2010 and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. A Long Petal of the Sea is her most recent novel and it tells the story of Victor and Roser, two refugees of the Spanish Civil War who flee their homeland and begin a new life in Chile in 1939. Read more about Recommended Reading: Isabel Allende's Latest Novel is Her Most Personal Yet