The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
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Author: Isabel AllendeEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1986-08-01
ISBN: 0553273914
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Generational storytelling at its finest.
Summary: 5 Stars
Allende's The House of The Spirits is a family story that is at once both fantastical and incredibly realistic. Allende weaves the story of three generations of the Trueba family. By telling the story of three generations of women, Allende is able to explore and illustrate the effects and consequences of abuse and anger, and inequality and also of love and reconciliation. It is an incredibly gritty and moving story, but Allende uses the mystical and the paranormal to weave the whole thing back together, all the little stories into one story; that is at times sad, but ultimately hopeful. Allende weaves the story of the Trueba family into a book that's impossible to put down.
Summary of The House of the Spirits
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess.
Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas.
Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores.
Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.
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