by Isabel Allende · Bantam Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553273915
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The House of the Spirits is a family saga that tells the story of the Truebas through several generations. From the patriarch Esteban, a volatile and ambitious man, to the mysterious matriarch Clara, who predicts family tragedies, and the rebellious Blanca, whose forbidden love triggers conflicts. The novel explores themes of love, politics, and the struggle between the past and the future in a Latin American context.
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.
