by Isabel Allende · Debolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483462034
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realist novel, published by Debolsillo in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Trueba family over several generations, from the patriarch Esteban, who builds an empire with an iron fist, to his descendants, in a turbulent Latin American country. Between the everyday and the fantastic, love and revolution, the family house embodies the rise and fall of a lineage during the 20th century.
Isabel Allende's first novel, originally published in 1982. This seventh paperback edition belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection.
Recommended for readers aged 14 and up interested in contemporary fiction, magic realism and family sagas.
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.
