The House Of The Spirits, by Isabel Allende

Do you like books that talk about passion, greed, love, death, revolution, politcs, ideals, hope...

The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel by Isabel Allende. Let´s see what it is about:

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate

In 1993 the book was adapted into a film (The house of the Spirits) 

by Danish director Bille Augoust.

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