by Isabel Allende · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422684190
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's first novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (573 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows the Trueba family over several generations and the patriarch Esteban Trueba, in an unidentified Latin American country undergoing social and political change. It combines magical realism with historical reflection, with love, power, family and revolution as the axes of a saga that ends in family disintegration.
The novel belongs to the Familia del Valle series, made up of three books.
Aimed at readers of literature and fiction who appreciate magical realism and family sagas with a historical backdrop.
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.
