As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their
own and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful
Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be
married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Set in an unnamed Latin
American country over three generations The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a
proud and passionate family secret loves and violent revolution.
