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The House of the Spirits

By Isabel Allende
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The House of the Spirits follows three generations of the Trueba family, exploring their intertwined lives marked by love, tragedy, and political upheaval. Patriarch Esteban’s quest for power contrasts with his wife Clara’s mystical sensitivity, while their daughter Blanca's forbidden romance brings hope through her daughter Alba, who embodies a revolutionary future for both family and country. This epic narrative weaves personal drama with political history, capturing the spirit of Latin America.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who appreciate multi-generational sagas, magical realism, and deeply emotional stories that blend the personal with the political.

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"Originally published in Spain as La casa de los epiritus by Plaza y Janâes, Barcelona, 1982"--Copyright page.

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This "spectacular... absorbing and distinguished work... is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America" (The New York Times Book Review).

The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future.

One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.

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ISBN: 9781501117015

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 December 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 512

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Fiction General Fiction Isabel Allende Literary Fiction Romance

About the Author

Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a novelist, feminist, and philanthropist. She is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than eighty million copies of her twenty-eight books across forty-two languages. She is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The Wind Knows My Name, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, and Eva Luna. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and in 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California with her husband and dogs. You can visit Isabel Allende at IsabelAllende.com or follow her on Instagram @AllendeIsabel, on Facebook at Facebook.com/IsabelAllende, and on X @IsabelAllende.

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