by Isabel Allende · PLANETA DEAGOSTINI: BIBLIOTECA ISABEL ALLENDE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439598114
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's first novel, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardcover (525 pages, in Spanish).
The story of the Trueba family unfolds over several generations, in a Chile shaped by social and political transformations. The narrative combines magical realism with reflection on love, death, family, politics, and spirituality.
The novel was originally published in 1982; this edition from the Biblioteca Isabel Allende gathers the complete work in two volumes.
For readers of Latin American fiction, magical realism, and historical fiction, and for book clubs.
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.
