by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422249
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realism novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows several generations of the Trueba family, from patriarch Esteban and his clairvoyant wife Clara to their children and grandchildren, in a Latin American country that evokes Chile. The work combines the supernatural with everyday reality and spans the social and political history of the 20th century up to the 1973 military coup.
Originally published in 1982, it was Isabel Allende's first novel. This edition is part of the Plaza & Janés Biblioteca de Autor collection.
For readers of literary fiction and historical novels, with a special interest in 20th-century Latin American narrative and its social transformations.
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.
