num_pages: 488
description: Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also 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 colourful and all-too-human inhabitants - the Trueba family, whose passions, struggles and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change. Against a backdrop of revolution and counter-revolution, Allende portrays a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring that the polictial allegiances that set them at odds.
language: English
title: The House of the Spirits
titlecomplete: The House of the Spirits (Everyman's Library)
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: Alfred A Knopf / Jonathan Cape