The House of the Spirits

Author(s): Isabel Allende

Fiction | Emily W | Shalini

"Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, 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, the unforgettable first novel that established 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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Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power' El Pais

'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power' El Pais

Isabel Allende was born in 1942 Lima, Peru. She grew up in Chile and now lives in California. She is the author of the novels The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Infinite Plan, Paula, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, My Invented Country, Zorro, Ines of My Soul, The Sum of Our Days and The Island Beneath the Sea.

General Fields

  • : 9780099528562
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.352
  • : September 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 31mm
  • : September 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Isabel Allende
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 863.6/4
  • : 496
  • : FA