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Magical Realism Night: The House of the Spirits
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A discussion of Isabel Allende’s debut novel and the traditions of magical realism.
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Magical Realism
The House of the Spirits
Fiction · FantasyPublished 1982South America
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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A family saga where the supernatural feels like memory
Allende’s debut treats the magical and the political with the same matter-of-fact warmth, so that a clairvoyant aunt and a coup feel equally real.
The women of the Trueba household carry the book: their notebooks, silences and rebellions become the way history is remembered.
Generous, sweeping and often very funny — a perfect choice for readers new to magical realism.
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