The House Of The Spirits
$57.83
- Hardcover
520 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2005
Summary
A bestseller 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.
We begin—at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country—in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152814 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152816 |
| Author: | Isabel Allende |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 137mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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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.
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.
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.
About The Author
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in 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.
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