by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401371783
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realism novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (380 pages, in Spanish).
The story spans several generations of the Trueba family in twentieth-century Chile. Through Clara and her descendants, the novel weaves domestic life together with the country's political upheavals, making room for dreams, premonitions and extraordinary events.
Originally published in 1982, it was Isabel Allende's first novel. This edition belongs to the Plaza & Janés literary collection and to the Involuntary Trilogy, in which it occupies third place.
A work of magic realism and historical fiction, suitable for readers of Latin American narrative.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
