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The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende,

Magda Bogin (Translator)

Start date: December 1, 2025

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Aug 03, 2009 Avigail rated it really liked it

I rated here the book as four stars but the real rate is 3.5 stars.
Isabel Allende tells the story ( and really she is a storyteller) about the lives and loves and troubles of a family in a country in South America. Although the story is beautifully written (although the images sometimes are a little bit forced, but maybe that is just my dutch translation), I didn't feel it was a superb book. Here's why. The caracters are two-dimensional. Reading the book I could guess where the story was going a ...more

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Jan 02, 2021 Karen D rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, family, magical-realism, literary-fiction, politics, eccentric-characters, domestic-problems, bad-protagonist, sex-crimes, bipoc

CW: Rape, abuse, homophobia

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This was really hard to get through. I liked the writing but the story is very slow and I just HATED the patriarch throughout the whole thing. I’ve really liked other books by Allende but this one wasn’t for me. 🤷‍♀️😏

Synopsis: This tells the story of several generations of the Trueba family — the patriarch Esteban and the many women in his life. This covers several generations in Chile and the political background to their stories.

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✅ The writing, ...more

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