The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel / Bolin, Magda / Hitchens, Christopher
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history.In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, cul...