Spanish Civil War refugees enter a marriage of necessity and rebuild their lives in Chile through decades of exile and political upheaval.
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Spanish Civil War refugees enter a marriage of necessity and rebuild their lives in Chile through decades of exile and political upheaval.
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. 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. 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. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them wants, and together are sponsor...
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Marriage of convenience becomes love; affairs and intimacy, not highly explicit
Civil war casualties, battlefield medicine, executions, dictatorship violence
Infrequent mild language in a literary historical narrative
Social drinking in period and cultural settings
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Catholic cultural backdrop of Spain and Chile; passing references
No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Spanish Civil War, fascism, exile, Chilean socialism, Pinochet era central
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War atrocities, refugee hardship, imprisonment, systemic political oppression
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