The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
"Three generations of the Trueba family — and the ghosts who never left."
Clairvoyant Clara, tyrannical Esteban, and the daughters and granddaughters who inherit their loves and their reckonings: Allende's debut sweeps through a century of an unnamed Chile, from hacienda to coup, with spirits drifting through every room. The novel that made her one of the world's most-read Spanish-language authors.
Worth knowing
Adapted to film in 1993; Allende has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. If you liked One Hundred Years of Solitude, this is your next family saga.
