01543nam a22002057a 4500 LC 20170509093942.0 170509b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781501117015 PQ 8098.1.L54 C313 2015 Allende, Isabel The house of the spirits : a novel Isabel Allende., translated by Magda Bogin Casa de los ispiritus New York : Atria Paperback 2015 481 pages., 21 cm. The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate" Fiction -- Literary Fiction -- Historical lcc BK 329838 329838 0 0 lcc 0 LUX LUX FIC 2017-05-09 Library Fund FIC 2 19 PQ 8098.1.L54 C313 2015 20421 2021-03-18 00:00:00 2020-02-18 2017-05-09 BK