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	The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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A book you will read over and over again...

This was the first Isabel Allende book I ever read. I first read it as a young girl, and since that time I have read it over again countless times. What amazes me most is that it still has the ability to transport me to another place another time. The language is beautiful and often poetic, and the charecters are real. I grew up surrounded by hispanic culture and Allende captures the spirituality, the superstitions and the sexual and age dynamics of that culture truthfully. Allende introduced me to the horrors of the Pinochet regime with this book, and thereby launched a career in learning as much about it as possible and working to bring justice to those his regime affected. This is one of those books that has the power to change you, to get under your skin, to open your eyes to another world and culture, and to the realities of the modern age.

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wonderfully written fantastical but believable on every level. Truly identifies and pulls at every human emotion and tells a fabulous story. Fast paced and full of twists and turns this plot is one of a kind. Highly recommended

se los recomiendo!!!

Es un libro facinate. Desde que Comienzas a leer no puedes despegarte de el, sientes que los personaje cobran vida, sientes que eres parte de la historia. buenisimoooo.

Allende's Masterpiece

I first read this eighteen years ago, and it never left me. Rereading this book feels, to be very corny, like reuniting with an old lover.

Simply, it's the story of Esteban Trueba, an impoverished gentleman who works his way up to a vast fortune and political power in an unanmned Latin American country (it's actually Chile.), and his stormy relations with the women in his life. His mystical, serene wife Clara, who talks to spirits, his rebellious daughter Blanca, who falls in love with the son of a peasant, and grandaughter Alba, who combines traits of both her mother and grandmother.

Most readers comment on the women of this story, but I think the real focus is Don Esteban, a man whose short-sided arrogance leads him to make many mistakes, with consequences that don't come back to bite him so much as they come back to devour him, his family,and his entire world. In the end he's old, ill, and destroyed, trying to make peace with his grand-daughter. Latin American history is full of men like this. It's the women who endure.

None of Allende's subsequent books comes close to this. A lovely, haunting tale I'll probably read again. I probably won't wait eighteen years.

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