by Isabel Allende · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422690818
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«La Casa de los Espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realism novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (536 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows the Trueba family over several generations in Chile, from the early 20th century to the 1973 coup d'état. Around the patriarch Esteban and the women of the house —Clara, Blanca and Alba—, the novel combines domestic life, love and the struggle for social justice with fantastic elements typical of magic realism.
The work originally appeared in 1982 and is the third instalment of the Involuntary Trilogy.
A contemporary classic for those who enjoy family sagas, Latin American narrative and magic realism.
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.
