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The house of the spirits

South American saga spanning three generations. A humble miner marries the daughter of a wealthy right-wing politician. Conflict arises when their daughter falls in love with a left-wing political activist.

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  • "South American saga spanning three generations. A humble miner marries the daughter of a wealthy right-wing politician. Conflict arises when their daughter falls in love with a left-wing political activist."@en
  • "This family saga is set amid the politics and passion of South America. It starts with the relationship and marriage between Clara and Esteban-- one haunted by the death of Clara's sister Rosa. Esteban builds an extravagant house where their children grow into the weave of controversy and notoriety resulting from the couple's separate beliefs."@en
  • "This family saga is set amid the politics and passion of South America. It starts with the relationship and marriage between Clara and Esteban, one haunted by the death of Clara's sister Rosa. Esteban builds an extravagant house where their children grow into the weave of controversy and notoriety resulting from the couple's separate beliefs."
  • "South American saga spanning three generations of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous beauty, a fiery and wilful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Talking books"@en

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  • "The house of the spirits"
  • "The house of the spirits"@en