Isabel Allende's first novel,
The House of the Spirits
tells the saga of a powerful Latin American landowning family.
The despotic patriarch Esteban Trueba has built with an iron fist a private empire that begins to falter with the passage of time and an explosive social environment. Finally, the patriarch's personal decadence will drag the Trueba family to a painful disintegration. Trapped in dramatic family relationships, the characters in this powerful novel embody the social and spiritual t...
