by Isabel Allende · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341618
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, published by ARETE in hardcover (528 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the Trueba family, led by the authoritarian Esteban Trueba, over several generations; amid dramatic relationships, political struggles and supernatural events, the novel traverses 20th-century Chile and reflects the social and spiritual tensions of an era marked by injustice and the search for identity.
It is Isabel Allende's first novel, originally published in 1982; this ARETE edition appeared in 2001 and is part of the Involuntary Trilogy.
For readers of magical realism and historical fiction interested in Latin American narrative and in Isabel Allende's literary universe.
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.
