Synopsis Isabel Allende's compelling magical-realist saga about the Trueba family in Chile is a political and social history of the country, as well as a powerful novel of family relationships. The novel revolves around the lives of the larger-than-life patriarch Esteban, his elusive wife Clara, their rebellious daughter Blanca, and Blanca's out-of-wedlock child Alba, who leads the family into the future.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-04-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 453 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Note "EXTRAORDINARY. . . . Powerful. . . . Sharply observant, witty and eloquent."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
Bestseller internacional y muy admirado cl?sico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia ?pica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los d?as violentos del golpe que derroc? al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los esp?titus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versi?n sumamente personal de realismo m?gico. Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
Allende plays with words weaving a delightful tale of the tragedies befalling successive generations of females within a family. "Extraordinary . . . Powerful . . . Sharply observant, witty and eloquent".--"The New York Times".
Industry Reviews "Writing is such a pleasure; it is always a private orgy, creating and recreating the world according to my own laws, fulfilling in those pages all my dreams and exorcising some of my demons." interview - Isabel Allende (01/01/1988)
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