The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
A family, a country, a century of ghosts.
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you want to understand Chile through the women who held it together while the men tore it apart
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Four generations of the Trueba family, spirits moving through walls, a country sliding toward coup. Allende wrote this as a letter to her dying grandfather and it became one of the great Latin American novels. The women here are clairvoyant, stubborn, radical, and completely alive. The men are powerful and wrong. Chile is the house they all live in — beautiful, haunted, and eventually on fire.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Chile • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Chilean author
- Topics
- chilean coup of 1973
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