{"product_id":"9780394539072","title":"The House of the Spirits","description":"Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you won't want to leave, and one you won't forget.\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Clara—The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alba—The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous beauty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Extraordinary... Powerful... Sharply observant, witty and eloquent.\"—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"...Isabelle Allende has indeed shown us the relationships between past and present, family and nation, city and country, spiritual and political values. She has done so with enormous imagination, sensitivity, and compassion.\"—Jane Futcher, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020945572080,"sku":"9780394539072","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780394539072_p0.jpg?v=1763698258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394539072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}