This was a liberating period for Allende, who took the opportunity to slough off her old, conventional existence and channel her homesickness into the magnificent, offbeat portrait of Chile found in her world-conquering debut novel, The House of the Spirits (1982). There he befriended Isabel Allende, also forced into exile as one of the ex-president’s relations.
Over the next 25 years, he became more Chilean than the Chileans, but as an adviser and friend of Salvador Allende he was obliged to flee again when the president was deposed by General Pinochet’s military junta in 1973, finding refuge in Venezuela. One such double unfortunate was Víctor Pey Casado, an engineer who fled Franco’s Spain in 1939 as one of more than 2,000 refugees transported to Chile on the SS Winnipeg. To be exiled from one homeland is unlucky to be exiled from two might suggest that somebody up there has a grudge against you.
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