by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401423024
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magical realism novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (453 pages, in Spanish).
The plot follows several generations of the Trueba family in an unspecified Latin American country, from the early 20th century to the contemporary era. Love, death, politics and social justice intertwine with the extraordinary and magical realism in a choral chronicle of Latin American history.
The novel was originally published in 1982; this edition is from 1991 and belongs to the Ave Fénix collection.
Suitable for book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction, magical realism and family sagas with historical background.
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.
