Of republics and refugees: A conversation with author Isabel Allende
Imagine yourself forced to make a tough decision: to flee the only country you've ever known, leaving almost everything behind.
Novelist Isabel Allende has had to make that choice more than once.
This decision also confronts the main characters in her new novel "A Long Petal of the Sea."
Having escaped Franco's Spain, only to find themselves in France at the outbreak of World War II, Victor Dalmau and his dead brother's pregnant widow Roser are faced with a choice: fall to the Nazis, or enter a loveless marriage in order to begin new lives in Chile.
They choose the latter, setting off a chain of events that will determine the next 55 years.
Isabel sat down with KUOW's Bill Radke to discuss the book, her home, and the urgency of late-life love.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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