by Isabel Allende · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401380112
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«La casa de los espíritus» is the magic realism novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (380 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows several generations of the Trueba family in Chile, from the late 19th century to the 1973 military coup. Between the supernatural and the everyday, the novel weaves magic realism with the country's political history, intertwining love, memory, and violence.
This edition belongs to Plaza & Janés's Literaria collection and reproduces the original Spanish text published in 1982.
Recommended for readers of magic realism, historical fiction, and family sagas; it is a reference work of Latin American literature.
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.
