The House of the Spirits
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9781501117015
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.
Key facts about The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende wrote The House of the Spirits, a book on our list. It has been out since 1982. The book has 512 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781501117015 to find the main one.
Isabel Allende has 21 books on our list. 3 of them belong to a series, while 18 stand alone. All 21 are out now. Other books by Isabel Allende on file include The Wind Knows My Name (2023), Violeta (2022), A Long Petal of the Sea (2019) and In the Midst of Winter (2017).
After it came Of Love and Shadows in 1984. Since then, our list has added 20 more books by Isabel Allende.
Isabel Allende has 1 series on file, City of the Beasts. That series sits on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, My Name Is Emilia del Valle is the latest published Isabel Allende book on file, from 2025.
About Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author widely regarded as the most-read Spanish-language novelist in the world, best known for The House of the Spirits (1982), a multi-generational family saga that helped bring the magical realism associated with Gabriel García Márquez and the broader Latin American Boom to an even wider international readership. See every Isabel Allende book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781501117015