by Isabel Allende · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552991988
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«The House of the Spirits» is Isabel Allende's magic realist novel, published by Black Swan in paperback (491 pages, in English).
The novel follows the Trueba family over three generations in an unnamed Latin American country. The clairvoyant Clara, the patriarch Esteban, their rebellious daughter Blanca and granddaughter Alba star in a story of forbidden loves, divided loyalties and social change, with elements of magic realism and a backdrop of political revolution.
This English edition, translated by Magda Bogin, was published in 1986; the Spanish original, «La casa de los espíritus», appeared in 1982. Part of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy.
For readers of literary fiction and magic realism interested in one of the central titles of Latin American literature, in its English version.
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.
