![]() Aloof Big Sister: Férula and Esteban aren't all that close.Alba is shown as having a really good sex life with her boyfriend Miguel, and then she's sexually abused to the extreme by her evil cousin. Blanca enjoys making love to Pedro Tercero but after she gets pregnant and is forced to marry Jean de Satigny, she can't think of having sex with anyone else. Clara gets to the point where she just thinks it's boring. All Women Are Prudes: All save one of the female characters gives an indication of actually liking sex.All Men Are Perverts: Esteban Trueba is the main culprit here, but it can be noticed with a majority of the male characters.( Justified, since they are so many, but still). Adaptation Distillation: The movie cuts A LOT of characters.It spawned a film adaptation in 1993, which - despite its All-Star Cast ( Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave) - received negative reviews and was a Box Office Bomb. er, I mean, some nameless Latin American country. Of course, all this is analyzed through three generations of Truebas, all this laced with political unrest, an earthquake and a coup d'état, between other stuff that happen in Chile. ![]() Trueba builds his fortune through his farm Las Tres Marías, but this, coupled with his political views, throw a few wrenches in the wheels of his family. Esteban Trueba, an ultra-conservative landowner, marries the Cloudcuckoolander Clara del Valle, with whom he has three kids, Blanca and the twins Nicolás and Jaime. The book deals with the members of the Trueba family, their growth, their rise and eventually their downfall. The House of the Spirits is a 1982 novel, Isabel Allende's first and most famous. ![]()
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