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La hermana de Pedro Segundo es la primera campesina violada por Esteban Trueba. Fue el producto de dos generaciones de mujeres violadas. Enseña a su nieto, Esteban García, que si él hubiera nacido en el lugar de Blanca, Nicolás o Jaime, habría heredado algo de la fortuna de los Trueba. Esto causa que Esteban García los desprecie a todos ellos, vengándose precisamente en la nieta de Esteban Trueba, Alba. Muere por una enfermedad después de un remedio natural de su padre. Fearing a Communist dictatorship, Esteban Trueba and his fellow politicians plan a military coup of the socialist government. However, when the military coup is set into action, the military men relish their power and grow out of control. Esteban's son Jaime is killed by power-driven soldiers along with other supporters of the government. After the coup, people are regularly kidnapped and tortured. Esteban helps Blanca and Pedro Tercero flee to Canada, where the couple finally find their happiness. There are many kinds of life that makes you rush to death But nothing worse than our fear from fear itself and our novel here is about: fighting death A conspiracy between Conservative Party members and the military leads to a coup d'état, 11 de Septiembre, and the military seizes control of the country. Under military control, people associated with the People's Party are captured and even killed. The police come and arrest Blanca for her association with Pedro Tercero. Before Blanca is taken away, she tells Esteban that Pedro is the love of her life, just as Clara was his. She appeals to Esteban to use his political influence to help find asylum for Pedro outside Chile so the three of them can be a family. In the coming days, Blanca is tortured and sexually abused by her half-brother, Esteban García, who had joined the military with his father's help.
Jaime may be inspired by the personal doctor Arturo Jiron of the Chilean president Salvador Allende. There is an array of powerful characters, multiple plots and stories, a mix of tragedy, love, conflict, and survival that grabs at the readers heart and is written by a superb author making this a true 20th Century classic for me. Ferula is my favourite, but she is one in a sea of very different and interesting individuals. There is, of course, Esteban Trueba. He is violent, selfish and earns very little sympathy from me over the course of the novel; that's not to say he isn't of interest, because he certainly is. And there's his wife - Clara - a woman prone to bouts of clairvoyance that have dictated the direction of her life; a direction she has accepted without complaint. Then there's Blanca, Esteban and Clara's daughter, who falls in love with Pedro Tercero against her father's wishes and constantly defies him by pursuing the relationship.The music for the film was composed by award winner Hans Zimmer. Additionally, two songs appear in the film: " La Paloma", a Spanish–Cuban–Mexican tune sung by popular Chilean singer Rosita Serrano; and " La Cumparsita", a classic Uruguayan tango tune performed by German bandleader Adalbert Lutter and his orchestra. The story follows three generations of women in the Trueba family: clairvoyant Clara, who marries anger-afflicted Esteban Trueba; their daughter Blanca, who carries on a secret affair with Pedro Terces Garcia, the son of Trueba's foreman; their daughter Alba, another mystic of sorts. They have a tendency to create fantastic creatures, out of cloth or clay or anything. Other characters include Clara and Esteban's twins Jaime the socialist doctor and Nicolas the guru; Trueba's bastard by rape Esteban Garcia; Pablo Neruda, himself; and one of the best dogs in literature, Barrabas. There are even more, but you will have no trouble keeping everyone straight, because Allende is a fantastic writer. Still continuing with the storyline, I find the political stuff just plain boring. I hate how we’re required to read books that not only talk about religion (like Christianity, which is really getting boring by now. How many more discussion topics about this can I handle before I start to scream?) but also politics. I don’t mind if the authors throw it in here and there, but to put all her characters involved with government conflict? It makes the story so predictable (because it is. You don’t politics never end well) and you know we will all spend a day or two talking about the different sides they’re taking and what a big theme it is. I’m just like, yeah, okay, whatever. I don’t want to end up having to look up the political references that the book mentioned to understand it all, and I don’t want a book that puts so much pressure on generations of families just because they don’t agree with each other. It’s bad enough that people are so passionate about that stuff, when others would very much like to just leave it at whatever’s best for the country, and still find something annoying in a work of fiction. With this topic, it threatens the characters and changes their personalities. Instead of being natural people, they get portrayed as good citizens who want to fight for what they believe in. We all know most people wouldn’t do that. Take the Holocaust, for instance. How much people stood up for Jews then? If I’m reading about a character that has journeyed into this political standing/situation, then I have nothing to complain about. But nope, not the case. Recently, I completed Allende's memoir The Sum of Our Days. She reveals that Clara represents her own grandmother: she also had the gift of being clairvoyant and communicating with all the spirits that entered her home by way of a three-legged table and tarot cards. Handed down this gift, Allende admits that she has had a number of meaningful dreams over the years that have influenced both her writing and family life.
I hate how every generation is about sadness, and how everything bad that can happen, happens to the Trueba/Del Valle family. But that’s story-telling for you, just not realistic.La casa de los espíritus - Leelibros.com, biblioteca de Sedice". leelibros.com . Retrieved 11 November 2017. After predicting the death of her sister Rosa, Clare remains silent for 9 years, only speaking again to announce her marriage to Esteban Trueba. Despite giving birth to a daughter Blanca and twin sons Jaime and Nicolas, Clara too suffers at the hands of this fierce and brutish man. However, it is only after a violent confrontation with Blanca’s lover, Pedro Tercero, that the relationship with Esteban breaks down and Clara leaves vowing to not speak with him again. Whilst they are together the relationship never recovers. I love this authors work and this among many of her other books are for everyone who just enjoys a fabulous story. Nadie volvió a escuchar de él otra vez; años después Alba es llamada para identificar su cuerpo en la morgue, aunque ella nunca lo había visto. Si os soy sincero, pese a que al final me ha encantando la obra y ha sido muy gratificante leerlo, me costó mucho meterme en la historia. Los dos o tres primeros capítulos me dejaron un poco desconcertado. Quizás tenía unas ideas preconcebidas sobra el libro y no me esperaba un protagonista tan detestable como Esteban Trueba. Es un villano hecho protagonista y a veces las barbaridades que hacía me costaba asimilarlas, sobre todo cuando las narraba en primera persona. Pero en cuanto empezaron a aparecer los personajes femeninos, que hay muchos y bastante interesantes, se relajo esto y ya solo fue disfrute.