AUTHOR PROFILE · Chile
Chilean-American writer whose debut novel, The House of the Spirits, became a landmark of Latin American fiction.
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American novelist and memoirist.
The House of the Spirits, her first novel, traces several generations of the Trueba family against the political history of an unnamed Latin American country.
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Four generations of the Trueba family — clairvoyants, patriarchs and revolutionaries — live through love, prophecy and political upheaval in an unnamed Latin American country.
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