7/2/2023 0 Comments The house of the spirits novel![]() ![]() ![]() On Esteban’s hacienda (estate), Tres Marías, lives the García family, a peasant family including Esteban’s trusted foreman, Pedro Segundo (who is also the brother of Pancha, the mother of Esteban’s illegitimate son), and his son Pedro Tercero, the future lover of Esteban’s daughter, Blanca. The novel also examines the Trueba family, whose only son, Esteban, is first engaged to Rosa del Valle and later marries her younger sister, Clara, after Rosa’s untimely death. Allende’s exploration of families begins with the del Valles, who suffer endlessly when the family’s eldest daughter, Rosa, is inadvertently murdered in an assassination attempt meant for her father, Severo, an up-and-coming politician of the Liberal party in an overwhelmingly conservative country. ![]() Families and their interconnections with one another are a complex theme within The House of the Spirits. ![]()
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