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Nicole Wallace (centre) as Clara del Valle in The House of Spirits
The first episode opens with that favourite figure in the dressing-up box of magical realism: the psychic child. A little girl with wondering eyes in a slightly decaying colonial mansion near Santiago moves a pepperpot apparently just by staring at it.
Following the lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian epic One Hundred Years of Solitude a couple of years ago, Latin-American magical realism again hits the screens with Amazon Prime’s The House of the Spirits (La Casa de los Espíritus). Isabel Allende’s 1982 novel was a huge bestseller across the world; but how well does it translate to the screen in this eight-episode drama series?
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