by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401029950
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The House of the Spirits is the first novel by acclaimed author Isabel Allende. This special edition commemorates the 40th anniversary of this emblematic work. The novel narrates the saga of the Trueba family, a powerful family of Latin American landowners, over several generations. The patriarch, Esteban Trueba, builds an empire that falters with time and social changes. The story explores the social and spiritual tensions of an era, mixing the everyday with the wonderful, love with revolution, and personal ideals with harsh political reality.
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.
