The house of spirits allende5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() We begin-at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country-in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara Del Valle. The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family-their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes a destiny and overtakes them all. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. ![]() ![]() Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. ![]() Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a symbolic family saga and the story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. ![]()
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