The House Of Spirits
Trade cloth book club edition in good condition. Dust jacket with small tear to bottom back. Rubbing to front board. Second printing. Mylar cover included.
“She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.”
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. This novel is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.
*The House of Spirits has never been officially banned, but has been repeatedly challenged as “pornographic,” “immoral” and “defaming the Catholic faith.” For more information, go to https://bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/isabel-allende-house-of-the-spirits/
Trade cloth book club edition in good condition. Dust jacket with small tear to bottom back. Rubbing to front board. Second printing. Mylar cover included.
“She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.”
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. This novel is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.
*The House of Spirits has never been officially banned, but has been repeatedly challenged as “pornographic,” “immoral” and “defaming the Catholic faith.” For more information, go to https://bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/isabel-allende-house-of-the-spirits/
Trade cloth book club edition in good condition. Dust jacket with small tear to bottom back. Rubbing to front board. Second printing. Mylar cover included.
“She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.”
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. This novel is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.
*The House of Spirits has never been officially banned, but has been repeatedly challenged as “pornographic,” “immoral” and “defaming the Catholic faith.” For more information, go to https://bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/isabel-allende-house-of-the-spirits/
ISBN 0-394-53907-9
Isabel Allende
1985