A best seller and critical success in Europe and Latin America, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family - their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all.
Isabel Allende was born in 1942 Lima, Peru. She grew up in Chile
and now lives in California.
She is the author of 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, Inés of My Soul The
Sum of Our Days and The Island Beneath the Sea.
The amazing Isabel Allende, the niece of Chile's ousted President
Salvador Allende, is creating the kind of literary sensation most
writers only dream of. And "The House of the Spirits" is no
ordinary first novel. It is an exotic vision - a brilliant,
impassioned epic - and a personal coup for the young journalist who
"had to write it."
The book seemed to come from nowhere: a first novel by a forty
two-year-old Chilean journalist that has dazzled readers throughout
Europe and Latin America, making its author the most unexpected
sensation since the emergence of Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
*Vogue*
An extraordinary debut, The House of the Spirits marks the
appearance of a major international writer.
Rarely has a first novel catapulted a writer so suddenly to
international attention and acclaim as The House of the Spirits.
The author, Isabel Allende, is niece of former Chilean president,
Salvador Allende Gossens; yet she was totally unknown to the world
at large until the events of last year.
*Alfred A Knopf*
With this spectacular first novel, Isabel Allende becomes the first
woman to join what has heretofore been an exclusive male club of
Latin American novelists.
"The House of the Spirits" draws on this experience, though always
in veiled terms. A meticulously detailed family saga spanning four
generations, the novel is set in a mythified land of volcanoes,
earthquakes and hurricanes, peopled by characters who seem to
derive their extravagance from their natural surroundings.
*New York Times*
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