The story details the life of the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile – though the country's name and the names of figures closely paralleling historical ones, such as "the Candidate/President" ( Salvador Allende) or "the Poet" ( Pablo Neruda), are never explicitly given. Her novel is influenced by Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. She began to write him a letter that ultimately became the manuscript of The House of the Spirits. The book was first conceived by Allende when she received news that her 100-year-old grandfather was dying. The House of the Spirits has been translated into over 20 languages.
The novel was named Best Novel of the Year in Chile in 1982, and Allende received the country's Panorama Literario award. It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Buenos Aires in 1982. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.The House of the Spirits ( Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. The House of the Spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. Our Shared Shelf, Emma Watson Goodreads Book Club Pick November/December 2020! The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America.” -The New York Times Book Review “Spectacular.An absorbing and distinguished work.
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