One character in this novel interrupts a sermon by stage-whispering "If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we..." Another of its characters remodels the Hotel Christopher Columbus into a successful brothel and helps rescue one of the protagonist's daughters from the military. A third character in this novel makes money selling clay monster figurines to Canadians after escaping her marriage to Count Jean de Satigny and eloping with (*) Pedro Tercero Garcia. This novel's central couple has a granddaughter named Alba and a daughter named Blanca. An early event in this novel is the accidental poisoning of the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful, as predicted by her psychic sister Clara del Valle, who then remains mute until her marriage to Esteban, th
One character in this novel interrupts a sermon by stage-whispering "If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we..." Another of its characters remodels the Hotel Christopher Columbus into a successful brothel and helps rescue one of the protagonist's daughters from the military. A third character in this novel makes money selling clay monster figurines to Canadians after escaping her marriage to Count Jean de Satigny and eloping with (*) Pedro Tercero Garcia. This novel's central couple has a granddaughter named Alba and a daughter named Blanca. An early event in this novel is the accidental poisoning of the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful, as predicted by her psychic sister Clara del Valle, who then remains mute until her marriage to Esteban, the owner of Las Tres Marías. For 10 points, name this chronicle of the Trueba family, the debut novel of Isabel Allende.
One character in this novel interrupts a sermon by stage-whispering "If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we..."
The House of the Spirits [or La Casa de los Espiritus]