by Isabel Allende · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033816
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the magic realism novel by Isabel Allende, published by Austral in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the Trueba clan, a family of landowners settled in an unnamed Latin American country, and traces their journey from the beginning to the end of the 20th century. The story blends everyday life with the fantastic and shows the social, political, and spiritual tensions that run through the characters and their surroundings.
Novel originally published in 1982. This Austral edition, from March 2010, includes a prologue by María Caballero and belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
High school reading for the EAU in the Basque Country; a classic of Hispanic American literature.
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.
