num_pages: 433
description: Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history.In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation’s history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people’s joys and anguishes wholly our own.
language: English
title: The House of the Spirits
titlecomplete: The House of the Spirits
characters: Blanca Trueba, Jaime Trueba, Esteban Trueba, Nicolàs Trueba, Alba Trueba, Clara del Valle, Esteban Garcia, Pedro Tercero Garcia, Férula Trueba
genres: Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Latin American, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 255005
places: Chile
series: Involuntary trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Beste Fiktion, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prix du Grand Roman d'évasion
publisher: Bantam