by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401374890
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the magic realism novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
The novel traces the history of the Trueba family from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, in an unnamed Latin American country. Through several generations and characters, love, memory, political tensions, and social changes intertwine, shaping their lives and the family's destiny.
Isabel Allende's first novel, originally published in 1982. It is part of the Involuntary Trilogy, where it appears as the third installment.
For readers interested in family sagas, Spanish-language fiction, and works with historical background.
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.
