About this book
The House of the Spirits (1982, 512 pages) is Isabel Allende's debut and the novel that made her one of the defining voices of Latin American magical realism -- written, by her own account, as a letter to her dying grandfather, it turns the multigenerational story of the Trueba family into an allegory for Chile's twentieth-century political upheaval, blending ghosts and prophetic visions with the real violence of a military coup.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781501117015