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The House of the Spirits
A book written by a Latin American writer and featuring an epic tale of several generations of a family (using a magical realism style) of course can only be compared to Garcia Marquez, and rightly so. Allende brings her own twist to the genre, however, and focuses on political upheaval as both the conservatives, socialists, and a dictatorship cause political strife and tragic consequences. I adored the clandestine romance between Blanca and Pedro Tercero Garcia, as well as between Alba and Miguel. The writing is dreamy and passionate, and full of a mixture of hot-headed tempers and despicable violence, but it's also about the perseverance of humans in the darkest hours. I loved it.
