The House of the Spirits, published in Spanish as La casa de los espiritus, is the 1982 debut novel of Isabel Allende. Rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982, it became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed and catapulted Allende to literary stardom, and has since been translated into over twenty languages. First conceived when Allende received news that her hundred-year-old grandfather was dying, the novel details the life of the Trueba family across four generations, tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile through two protagonists, Esteban and Alba, and incorporates elements of magical realism influenced by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Is The House of the Spirits set in Chile?
Its events follow Chile, though the country and its historical figures are never named.
The novel traces the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile across four generations of the Trueba family, but the country is never named. Figures who closely parallel historical ones are also left unnamed, such as the Candidate or President, who corresponds to Salvador Allende, and the Poet, who corresponds to Pablo Neruda. The story is told mainly from the perspective of two protagonists, Esteban and Alba, and incorporates elements of magical realism.
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The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espiritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.
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is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.
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Rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982, it became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed and catapulted Allende to literary stardom, and has since been translated into over twenty languages.
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The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom.
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The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espiritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.
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Autobiographical novel, Magical realism
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