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by: Isabel Allende
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553383805
ISBN: 0553383809
Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Sales Rank: 39578
Studio: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Product Description:
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.
From the Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - hip hip horray for house of the spirits
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
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating:  - WAY Too Much Like 100 Years Of Solitude. UNORIGINAL!
"House Of The Spirits" is an inferior reflection of "100 Years Of Solitude" but still somehow the SAME BOOK!!!!
Told in a weird narrative that flip flops from first-person to third - (and sloppily too) - House of the Spirits is about 4 generations of a very turbulent family in South America. The main character is Esteban Trueba who is as fierce with his temper as he is with his genitals. He RUNS the town of Tres Marias with an iron fist, having built it up from nothing into a strong, industrial ... Read More
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