The Splendid City

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this novel Terence Clarke dramatically intermingles the story of Nobel-Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's escape from Chile in 1949 with events from Neruda's life both before and after the Communist poet crossed the Andes to reach safety in Argentina. </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Clarke gives full credit to the men and animals who helped turn a dilettante into a mountain man. The chapters about Neruda's wife Delia twenty years his senior sympathetically trace a woman who never loses faith that her man will return to her.</span></p>