Everything you need to understand or teach The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.
Isabelle Allende's The House of the Spirits is often compared to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The obvious similarities are that both novels relate the saga of a family, both make liberal use of magic and fantasy, and both established their authors' literary reputations. But where García Márquez's words create a poetic picture of Latin-American life, Allende's words offers an explicit commentary...