House of the Spirits Stories about people they have

Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives

bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother

parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly different from the one many Western parents develop--it's built on cooperation instead of control

- A humorous

through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple

House of the Spirits Stories about people they have"Spectacular An absorbing and distinguished work The House of the Spirits with its all informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Lati