![]() ![]() My Thoughtsįollowing my September Man Booker Prize Month, I have decided to close out my 2018 Top 20 Reading List in October by taking on the last three books on the list – Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Against a backdrop of revolution and counter-revolution, Allende depicts a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. ![]() The Trueba family’s passions, struggles and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. In the triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants. ![]() Genre: Family Saga, Magical Realism, South American Fiction Synopsis ![]()
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