by Isabel Allende · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592192
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«La casa de los espíritus» is Isabel Allende's magic realism novel, published by Debolsillo in paperback (453 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Trueba family over several generations, intertwining their private destiny with the history of Chile in the twentieth century. The narrative combines magic realism with episodes of political and social tension, portraying memory, love, and the traces of the past in a house where the everyday coexists with the supernatural.
Originally published in 1982; third installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy.
A work for readers of contemporary fiction and family sagas, with an interest in magic realism.
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.
