Isabel Allende · 1982 · exile

Isabel Allende's 1982 saga of the Trueba family across three generations in an unnamed Chile. From the clairvoyant Clara in the capital to the patriarch Esteban's country estate at Tres Marias, the family's fortunes rise and entwine with the nation's - through earthquake and revolution to the military coup whose terror finally engulfs them all in the house of the spirits.

1. 1
   Santiago

   The capital where the clairvoyant Clara grows up and the ambitious Esteban Trueba builds his fortune - the big house on the corner where the family saga plays out across generations.

2. 2
   Tres Marias

   Esteban's country estate in the Chilean heartland, which he rebuilds from ruin into a prosperous hacienda - the land where the family's loves, cruelties and reckonings take root.

3. 3
   Santiago

   The capital again in the years of upheaval, where the military coup unleashes a terror that sweeps up the Trueba women, closing the family's circle in blood and endurance.