by Isabel Allende · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481302479
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«La casa de los espíritus», with a prologue by Zoé Valdés, is Isabel Allende's magic realism novel, published in paperback (382 pages, in Spanish).
Isabel Allende's first novel, it recounts the saga of the Trueba family over four generations, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, in a Latin American country. It focuses on the female characters Clara, Blanca and Alba and on the patriarch Esteban Trueba, blending family life, class struggle, politics and supernatural elements.
This edition belongs to the collection Las 100 mejores novelas de la literatura hispana; the work was originally published in 1982.
Reading for lovers of magic realism and family sagas with a political backdrop.
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.
