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The house of the spirits

Allende, Isabel, 1942-2024
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“Barrabás came to us by sea,” 10-year-old Clara del Valle writes neatly in her notebook. She is in the habit of recording all events, big and small, but she has no way of knowing that her notebooks will later be used to “reclaim the past” and “overcome terrors.” Clara’s father, Severo, has political aspirations and her mother, Nívea, hopes her husband is successful so that she can fight for women’s rights from the inside. Clara has special “mental powers,” which her family tries to keep secret. She can read auras and predict disasters, make the saltshaker move across the table without touching it, and talk to spirits. One day, two men arrive with a coffin, and Nana, the servant in charge of the children, runs in the house and tells Nívea that her brother Marcos has died overseas of a mysterious plague. Nívea and the children, especially Clara, are devastated; however, Barrabás, a puppy of indeterminate breed, is among Marcos’s personal possessions, and Clara quickly falls in love with him.
Main title:
The house of the spirits / by Isabel Allende.
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Random House, 2024.©1985.
Collation:
509 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781784879709 (hardback)
Language:
English
BRN:
462899
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