When the central matriarch of this novel decides to name her twin children Nicolas and Jaime, her husband gets drunk and encounters a prostitute at a brothel named after Christopher Columbus.
This novel uses a story about a collective of chickens which defeats a cunning fox to show that peasants can oppose an oppressive tyrant. The death of a character called The Poet is likened to the "symbolic burial of freedom" in this novel; that poet's verses are extensively praised by the Count de Satigny. When the central matriarch of this novel decides to name her twin children Nicolas and Jaime, her husband gets drunk and encounters a prostitute at a brothel named after Christopher Columbus. That prostitute, Transito Soto, saves Alba, who had been arrested and raped by the sadistic son of Pancha Garcia. This novel begins with the poisoning of the green-haired Rosa, and later on her sister Clara marries the rags-to-riches Esteban Trueba. For 10 points, name this novel written by Isabel Allende.
This novel uses a story about a collective of chickens which defeats a cunning fox to show that peasants can oppose an oppressive tyrant.
The House of the Spirits [or La Casa de los Espiritus]