Name: La casa de los espíritus (in Spanish)
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Author: Isabel Allende

portada La casa de los espíritus (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Isabel Allende

Publisher

Austral

Year

2026

Language

Spanish

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9789566180821

Edited in

Chile

Synopsis "La casa de los espíritus (in Spanish)"

La historia de una poderosa familia de terratenientes en algún lugar de América Latina. Han transcurrido más de veinticinco años desde la publicación de LA CASA DE LOS ESPÍRITUS escrita por Isabel Allende (1942), una casi desconocida chilena exiliada en Caracas que, para «sacarse del alma los fantasmas», tomó la pluma en enero de 1981 y no paró hasta enhebrar más de quinientas páginas, como un exorcismo. Después comenzó la peregrinación por las editoriales del lugar, que la rechazaron, para finalmente lanzarse con éxito en España, de donde saltó a Europa e Hispanoamérica. En ese proceso de recepción literaria llega por fin al Chile de Pinochet en el que se cuela de contrabando burlando la censura. A partir de ahí explota el «fenómeno Allende»: un inmenso éxito de ventas, traducciones al alemán, ruso, japonés... y la versión cinematográfica en 1993. La clave de este éxito radica en la extraordinaria capacidad de narrar de Isabel Allende, inventora de una «comedia humana» al estilo de Balzac.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende was born in 1942, in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile and lived in various places during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in 1973 in Chile, she went into exile in Venezuela and since 1987 has lived as an immigrant in California. She defines herself as an "eternal foreigner."

She began her literary career in journalism, in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982 her first novel, The House of the Spirits, became one of the legendary titles of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have been international successes. Her work has been translated into forty languages and has sold more than seventy million copies, making her the best-selling Spanish-language writer.

She has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literature Prize in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in Denmark, in 2012, for her trilogy "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" and the Medal of Freedom in the United States, the highest civilian honor, in 2014. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Spanish-language writer awarded the medal of honor of the National Book Award, in the United States for her significant contribution to the world of letters.

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