by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401382079
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the magic realist novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (447 pages, in Spanish).
The chronicle follows the Trueba family, landowners in an unnamed Latin American country, over several generations; love, ambition, secrets and the upheavals of their surroundings intersect among its members. The decline of patriarch Esteban Trueba drags the clan into a painful disintegration, told with magic realism.
Isabel Allende's first novel, originally published in 1982; part of the Involuntary Trilogy.
For readers of Latin American fiction seeking magic realism, historical fiction or generational novels.
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.
