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Del Valle Family Series

This sweeping saga chronicles the lives of a prominent South American family, weaving together political intrigue, passionate romance, and supernatural occurrences. While each installment focuses on different generations and characters, they are all united by a powerful family legacy and enduring secrets. The narratives are rich with love, loss, and the search for identity amidst tumultuous historical backdrops. It's an epic journey for readers who appreciate sprawling family chronicles touched by magical realism.

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Daughter of Fortune
Portrait in Sepia
The house of the spirits

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  1. 1

    Daughter of Fortune

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
    3.8(1255)Add rating

    An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en. California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence to the young Chilean, and her search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.

    Daughter of Fortune
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    Portrait in Sepia

    4.1(499)Add rating

    Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

    Portrait in Sepia
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    The house of the spirits

    • 491 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    4.4(25534)Add rating

    A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.

    The house of the spirits