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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9780553383805
Fax Number: Later Printing
Legal Disclaimer: 0553383809
Maximum Color Depth: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Metal Type: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 433
Total External Bays Free: August 30, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Parallel Ports: August 30, 2005
Dial Press Trade Paperback
Features:- ISBN13: 9780553383805
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
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.
Average Rating: 
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I read several reviews both before and after ordering The House of Spirits and reading it, twice. I re-read it because there is just A LOT of information that I felt as though I had to have missed something the first time, but I believe this novel is completely void of a definite plot. It is simply the convoluted story of a family. The characters are unique to say the very least, but some are violently unloveable and others are too weird to embrace, Allende's portrait of this family saga is a ... Read More
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After forcing myself through about fifty pages, I decided this book was average and abandoned it for something else. When I came back and picked it up a few months later, though, it was a completely different novel and I literally had trouble putting it down. It made me late for work. This is the kind of book that might not catch you the first time, even if you particularly enjoy the South American magical realism thing (I do), but if you put it aside and never try reading it again, you are missing ... Read More
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I was required to read this book for a Latin American Women Writers course however, I became completely engrossed in the story and fell in love with the book. It's complicated and requires the reader to pay close attention to each character but it is definitely worth the time and effort; this has become one of my favorite books and I'm sure I'll keep it forever. Highly recommended!!
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I absolutely loved this wonderful balance of love, tragedy, and comedy. I'm 21 and this was my first Allende novel... but certainly not my last!!
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This book was on my frequently banned or challenged list. Within a hundred or so pages I could see why. Overall I though it was a very good read, but at time it was just to much. There is quite a bit of violence, rape, and human cruelty. Although, I do understand that is fits in with the time period the book refers too. I loved Clara and thought the storyline lost some of its appeal when she died. But, the hardest thing about this book for me was the didn't seem to be a point to the story. I like ... Read More
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