The House of the Spirits

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A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family tree — their likes, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all.

We start — at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country — in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities — she can read fortunes, make objects go as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Gorgeous, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon.

Her spouse-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, agreed to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa’s fiance, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen — has summoned — to be her spouse; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and unforgiving life.

We go with this couple as they go into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls “the huge house on the confront,” which is soon populated with Clara’s spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban’s political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children…their daughter, Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman…the twins, Jaime and Nicolas, the ex- a solitary, taciturn boy who becomes a doctor to the poor and unfortunate; the latter a playboy, a dabbler in Eastern religions and mystical disciplines…and, in the third generation, the child Alba, Blanca’s daughter (the family tree does not admit the real father for years, so fantastic is Esteban’s rage), a child who is fondled and indulged and instructed by them all.

For all their excellent chance, their natural (and supernatural) talents, and their powerful attachments to one another, the inhabitants of “the huge house on the confront” are not immune to the larger forces of the world. And, as the twentieth century beats on…as Esteban becomes more strident in his challenger to Communism…as Jaime becomes the friend and confidant of the Socialist leader known as the Candidate…as Alba falls in like with a student radical…the Truebas become actors — and victims — in a tragic series of events that gives The House of the Spirits a deeper reminiscence and meaning.

It is the supreme achievement of this splendid novel that we feel ourselves members of this large, passionate (and sometimes vexing) family tree, that we become attached to them as if they were our own. That this is the leader’s first novel makes it all the more extraordinary. The House of the Spirits inscription the appearance of a major, international writer.

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