In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch...

During the summer of 1960, fifteen-year-old Lila escapes the confines of school and her mother's hysterics to spend the summer with her uncle George, a music teacher preparing to stage a Puccini opera in Burnhead, on the west coast...

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a house where they begin their lives again from scratch. For 20 years they laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes home for their...