Fiction & Literature
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Synopsis
The fortunes of the Trueba family unfold under the authority of the landowner Esteban Trueba. Intimate relationships, political conflict and spiritual experience become inseparable as the family’s private history is shaken by wider social change.
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