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The House of Impossible Loves - An "exuberant"(El Mundo) debut novel about a familyof cursed womenin the tradition ofLaura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate. The Laguna women suffer from an odd affliction: each generation iscondemned to tragic love affairs and to only give birth to girls who are unable to escape the cruel fate of their mothers.One fateful hunting season in their small Castilian town, a young landowner arrives and begins a passionate affair with Clara Laguna, the latest in the family line, daughter of a one-eyed woman known as "the Laguna witch." He leaves her pregnant with yet another daughter, but the seeds of change are sown. Eventually the long-awaited son Santiago, the great-great grandson of Clara is born. A window of hope is opened, but is the curse truly over? Full of memorable, offbeat characters, from a bearded, mute female cook to the local do-gooding priest to the Laguna women themselves, The House of Impossible Loves is a feat of imaginative storytelling that marks the arrival of a talented new novelist.


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⚡️Book Title : The House of Impossible Loves
⚡Book Author : Cristina Lpez Barrio
⚡Page : 336 pages
⚡Published June 4th 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published January 1st 2010)

The House of Impossible Loves

An "exuberant"(El Mundo) debut novel about a familyof cursed womenin the tradition ofLaura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate. The Laguna women suffer from an odd affliction: each generation iscondemned to tragic love affairs and to only give birth to girls who are unable to escape the cruel fate of their mothers.One fateful hunting season in their small Castilian town, a young landowner arrives and begins a passionate affair with Clara Laguna, the latest in the family line, daughter of a one-eyed woman known as "the Laguna witch." He leaves her pregnant with yet another daughter, but the seeds of change are sown. Eventually the long-awaited son Santiago, the great-great grandson of Clara is born. A window of hope is opened, but is the curse truly over? Full of memorable, offbeat characters, from a bearded, mute female cook to the local do-gooding priest to the Laguna women themselves, The House of Impossible Loves is a feat of imaginative storytelling that marks the arrival of a talented new novelist.