Daughter Blanca ignores Class barriers to fall in love with-and bear a child by-the foreman's son, who will later become a famous leftwing troubadour (on the model of Victor Jara). So, with opposites attracting, the marriage of Esteban and Clara is inevitable-as is the succession of Clara-influenced children and grandchildren. until he falls under the spell of young Clara DelValle: mute for nine years after witnessing the gruesome autopsy of her equally delicate sister, Clara is capable of telekinesis and soothsaying she's a pure creature of the upper realms who has somehow dropped into crude daily life.
Headstrong and conservative, Esteban is a piggish youth, mistreating his peons and casually raping his girl servants. Salvador Allende, an ill-fated socialist.) The Truebas are estate-owners of independent wealth, of whom only one-the eventual patriarch, Esteban-fully plays his class role.
A strong, absorbing Chilean family chronicle, plushly upholstered-with mystical undercurrents (psychic phenomena) and a measure of leftward political commitment.
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