La casa de los espíritus - Isabel Allende (1982)

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By the niece of President Allende, a saga that eclaire l'âme du Chili, et s'étale sur un siècle. "Quatre vies de femmes en forment la trame." Remarkable. Very accessible. [MDS].
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Reprint of the premiere edition of 1984.
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"Barabas arrived to the family by sea, the girl Clara noted in her delicate handwriting."
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Isabel Allende's first novel. The House of the Spirits tells the saga of a powerful family of Latin American landowners. The despotic patriarch Esteban Trueba has built, with an iron fist, a private empire that is beginning to falter due to the passage of time and an explosive social environment. Finally, the personal decline of the patriarch will drag the Truebas into a painful disintegration. Caught in dramatic family relationships, the characters in this marvelous novel embody the social and spiritual tensions of an era that spans much of this century.
The House of the Spirits has been adapted to film in a film starring, among others, Jerermy Irons, Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas. With tenderness and impeccable literary craftsmanship, Isabel Allende outlines the destiny of her characters as an inseparable part of the collective destiny of a continent, marked by miscegenation, social injustices and the search for one's own identity. This achieved narrative universe is the result of a lucid historical and social consciousness, as well as an aesthetic proposal that constitutes a singular expression of magical realism.