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Review title: Powerfully emotional epic of family and nation.
Product review: This book spans 75 years starting in around 1900 and takes place in an unnamed South American country. We meet Clara the clairvoyant as a child and her future husband Esteban whose children and grandchild populate the story. As the novel progresses, social issues are seamlessly woven into the plot and political tensions escalate from generation to generation. There are numerous colorful and memorable supporting characters. The dense descriptions and myriad relationships are superb. About 2/3 of the way through the book I realized that the magical beginning had been supplanted by politics and I was being lead toward a conclusion of violent and terrible realism. But I persisted and was swept back into the story and found the return to the House of Spirits a satisfying ending. I was extremely impressed at how well done and enjoyable this powerfully emotional novel is.
