The house of the spirits

Name: The house of the spirits
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Autor: Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende's greatest success, The House of the Spirits, is a classic of magical realism and Latin American literature. The work brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hate are more complex and enduring than the political loyalties that pit them against each other.

The House of the Spirits is both an emblematic family saga and a tale of a turbulent period in the history of a nondescript Latin American country. Isabel Allende builds a world driven by spirits and fills it with expressive and very human inhabitants, including Esteban, the patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose desire for land is legendary and who lives haunted by the tyrannical passion he feels for the wife he can never fully possess; Clara, the matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foresees family tragedy and shapes the fate of the house and the Truebas; Blanca, her soft-spoken but rebellious daughter, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's eternal contempt, even when it results in the granddaughter he so adores; and Alba, the fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a fiery, stubborn woman endowed with luminous beauty.

The passions, struggles, and secrets of the Trueba family span three generations and a century of violent transformations, culminating in a crisis that drives the patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Known as a masterpiece of Latin American literature, The House of the Spirits presents a compelling narrative that seamlessly and elegantly weaves together past, present, and future. Isabel Allende presents us with characters rich in emotion and meticulous details about the world around them. A timeless novel inspired by the author's own family, it is certainly a book that deserves to be on every reader's bookshelf.

“Spectacular… A captivating and singular work… A story of peace and reconciliation.” — The New York Times

ISBN	978-852-862-256-0
Tradutor	Carlos Martins Pereira
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	24 mm
Lançamento	24/10/2017
Páginas	448

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende, nascida no Peru e criada no Chile, é romancista, feminista, filantropa e uma das autoras mais lidas do mundo, tendo vendido mais de 80 milhões de exemplares de seus livros em 42 idiomas. Além de escrever, Isabel dedica muito de seu tempo a causas ligadas aos direitos humanos. Ela foi agraciada com 15 doutorados honorários, incluída no California Hall of Fame, e recebeu o Prêmio PEN Center Lifetime Achievement e o Prêmio Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement. Em 2014, o ex-presidente Barack Obama a condecorou com a Medalha da Liberdade nos Estados Unidos, a mais elevada distinção civil da nação, e, em 2018, ela recebeu a Medalha de Contribuição Distinta à Literatura Americana da National Book Foundation. Ela mora na Califórnia com o marido e seus cachorros, um dos quais se chama Perla.

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