by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401385155
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realist novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the Trueba family over several generations in a fictional Latin American country, with social and political changes as a backdrop. It alternates the everyday and the extraordinary, and addresses love, death, ghosts, social classes, revolution, and ideals through the voices of its protagonists.
The work was originally published in 1982; this 1995 edition belongs to the Ave Fénix collection, major series.
For book clubs and for readers seeking family sagas with historical and political 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.
