Here's the opening to one of my favorite books, The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende:
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. She was already in the habit of writing down important matters, and afterward, when she was mute, she also recorded trivialities, never suspecting that fifty years later I would use her notebooks to reclaim the past and overcome terrors of my own.
What's your favorite opening to a book? I want to know!
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