Who wrote The House of the Spirits?

Isabel Allende wrote The House of the Spirits, first published in 1982. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

The House of the Spirits

Name: The House of the Spirits
Author: Isabel Allende

by Isabel Allende · 1982

Literary Fiction · ranked #15 in category

Four generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country — from the clairvoyant Clara to her granddaughter Alba, who survives the military coup — are traced through love, violence, magic and political catastrophe. Allende's debut draws on García Márquez's magical realism while making it entirely her own, and is one of the foundational texts of Latin American feminist fiction.

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