The Nationalists, led by Gen. Francisco Franco, defeated the Republican Army. The rest of Victor's family – father Marcel and mother Carme, along with Marcel’s student Roser Bruguera – is steadfast on the side of the losing Republican cause. The war, often historically overshadowed by World War II, which quickly followed it, is a brutal precursor of the horrors to come. Victor joined the Republican Army in 1936, along with his brother Guillem, while still in medical school. Victor Dalmau, a young medic caring for the wounded during the Spanish Civil War, restores the beating heart of a young soldier with the caress of his fingers. Isabel Allende’s latest novel, “A Long Petal of the Sea” (Ballantine, 336 pp., ★★★ out of four), begins, as it ends, with the heart. View Gallery: Winter reading guide: This season’s must-read books
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