by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401376573
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the Trueba family over several generations in Chile and weaves the domestic sphere with the country's political and social changes. Love, violence and hope run through the lives of its characters, in a story with magical and symbolic elements that works as a metaphor for contemporary Chile.
The novel originally appeared in 1982; this Plaza & Janés edition was published in 1999.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature interested in a novelized view of 20th-century Chile.
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.
