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👻 Magical Realism Masterpiece: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Spanish
👻 Magical Realism Masterpiece: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Spanish
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Used Book in practically brand new condition! 📚✨
Isabel Allende's debut novel, The House of the Spirits, tells the epic saga of a powerful Latin American landowning family. 🏡👻
- Patriarch Esteban Trueba builds a private empire with an iron fist, but it begins to crumble over time amid social turmoil. 💥
- His personal decline leads the Truebas into a painful disintegration, trapped in dramatic family relationships. 😢
- The characters embody the social and spiritual tensions spanning much of the 20th century. ⏳
With impeccable narrative pulse and historical clarity, Allende blends the everyday with the magical, love with revolution, and ideals with harsh political reality. 🌟❤️🔥
Critics rave:
- «A unique achievement—both personal testimony and possible allegory of Latin America’s past, present, and future.» – The New York Times Book Review 🗞️
- «A strong, absorbing chronicle of a Chilean family, with opulent details and a mystical backdrop... A refined combination of settings.» – Kirkus Review 🌌
- «There are few journeys more exciting than those taken in the imagination of a brilliant novelist. That experience is available in The House of the Spirits...» – Cosmopolitan ✨
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION:
«Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits, with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement.» – The New York Times Book Review 🏆
This unforgettable novel introduces the Trueba family—Esteban, a volatile patriarch; Clara, his mystical wife; their daughter Blanca; and granddaughter Alba, who leads the family into a revolutionary future. 👨👩👧👧❤️🔥
One of the most important novels of the 20th century, it weaves decades of lives into a universal story of love, magic, and fate. ✨📖
