El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrará a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegración. Atrapados en unas dramáticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una época que abarca gran parte del siglo XX.
Con impecable pulso narrativo y gran lucidez histórica, Isabel Allende ha creado un fresco en el que conviven lo cotidiano con lo maravilloso, el amor con la revolución y los ideales personales con la dura realidad política.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Isabel Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, tells the saga of a powerful family of Latin American landowners.
The despotic patriarch, Esteban Trueba, has built a private empire with an iron fist, but it begins to falter with the passage of time and an explosive social environment. Ultimately, the patriarch’s personal decline will drag the Truebas into a painful disintegration. Caught up in dramatic family relationships, the characters in this powerful novel embody the social and spiritual tensions of an era spanning much of the 20th century.
With impeccable narrative skill and great historical lucidity, Isabel Allende has created a fresco in which the everyday coexists with the marvelous, love with revolution, and personal ideals with a harsh political reality.