The most outstanding pianist among Professor Dalmau's students was Roser Bruguera, a young girl from the village of Santa Fe de Segarra who, had it not been for the generous intervention of Santiago Guzman, would have shepherded goats all her life. And in the end, they will find that home might have been closer than they thought all along"- Provided by publisher. Through it all, it is that hope of being reunited with their home that keeps them going. But they will also find joy as they wait patiently for a day when they are exiles no more, and will find friends in the most unlikely of places. Over the course of their lives, they will face test after test. Starting over on a new continent, their trials are just beginning. As unlikely partners, they embrace exile and emigrate to Chile as the rest of Europe erupts in World War. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them wants, and together are sponsored by poet Pablo Neruda to embark on the SS Winnipeg along with 2,200 other refugees in search of a new life. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain.
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